Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of writing hastily and carelessly.
- noun The first coarse teasing or carding which wool or cotton receives.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Writing hastily or poorly.
- noun The act of writing hastily or idly.
- noun The act or process of carding coarsely.
- noun the machine used for the first carding of wool or other fiber; -- called also
scribbler .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun That which has been
scribbled , written in ascrawled or carelesshand . - verb Present participle of
scribble .
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Examples
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January 28th, 2010 at 3: 55 pm belaccifer lacca says: jwest - some napkin scribbling says that your 500 new nuclear reactors will run about 7 billion each.
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What I had seen in her notebook—slashes, dashes, and tiny loops all cramped together—looked like gibberish, but since she called her scribbling “medical theories,” I thought possibly she could be right: it could be a kind of formula.
Fleur De Leigh’s Life of Crime Diane Leslie 1999
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Perhaps 90 percent of the scribbling is the work of "taggers," or kids who mark their initials as a form of youthful rebellion.
Scorecard 2008
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Sometimes she could be seen with a despairing expression scribbling rapidly in her lock-up dairy.
Within the Tides Joseph Conrad 1890
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The director favoured unorthodox methods of working, such as scribbling new dialogue on scraps of paper and handing them to the actors just before a take.
Films of Michael Caine #70: The Debtors DAVID BISHOP 2007
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Gavston or Gauston twice encised, but to this "scribbling" Mr Weston S. Walford, who has a note on this tomb in the fifteenth volume of the
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Philip Walsingham Sergeant 1912
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As he wrote in after years: “I had acquired from early boyhood the idea that it was expected of me to become a pianist, and every moment spent in 'scribbling' seemed to be stolen from the more legitimate work of piano practice.”
Edward MacDowell Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939 1908
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As he wrote in after years: "I had acquired from early boyhood the idea that it was expected of me to become a pianist, and every moment spent in 'scribbling' seemed to be stolen from the more legitimate work of piano practice."
Edward MacDowell Lawrence Gilman 1908
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She could see no sense in taking the best hours of the day for "scribbling," and it was only in the later years when Father had a steady income from his writings that her point of view softened.
My Boyhood John Burroughs 1879
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"It should also make ebooks more relevant for education by simplyfing functions such as scribbling marginalia."
AppleInsider 2009
minerva commented on the word scribbling
Never was there such a pair of scribbling lovers as we--- yet perhaps whom it so much concerns to keep from each other what each writes.
Lovelace to Belford, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
December 4, 2007