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Scribble   /skrˈɪbəl/   Listen
verb
Scribble  v. t.  (Woolen Manuf.) To card coarsely; to run through the scribbling machine.


Scribble  v. t.  (past & past part. scribbled; pres. part. scribbling)  
1.
To write hastily or carelessly, without regard to correctness or elegance; as, to scribble a letter.
2.
To fill or cover with careless or worthless writing.


Scribble  v. i.  To write without care, elegance, or value; to scrawl. "If Maevius scribble in Apollo's spite."


noun
Scribble  n.  Hasty or careless writing; a writing of little value; a scrawl; as, a hasty scribble. "Neither did I but vacant seasons spend In this my scribble."





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"Scribble" Quotes from Famous Books



... worse; Before the dawn I rouse myself and call For pens and parchment, writing-desk, and all. None dares be pilot who ne'er steered a craft; No untrained nurse administers a draught; None but skilled workmen handle workmen's tools; But verses all men scribble, ...
— Horace • Theodore Martin
... art of dance have I Gone as far as Raumer quite In the art of letters—can he Scribble better ...
— Atta Troll • Heinrich Heine
... hours were passed during the first months of his captivity in writing books in English or Latin; but when pen and paper were taken from him, and he could only scribble a few words with the end of a charred stick, he had plenty of time to think over his life and to recall the years that had been so happy. The harsh words that he had written about men whose religion was different from his own did not trouble him, nor the thought of ...
— The Red Book of Heroes • Leonora Blanche Lang
... of Harold's pilgrimage: Ye who of him may further seek to know, Shall find some tidings in a future page, If he that rhymeth now may scribble moe. Is this too much? stern Critic! say not so: Patience! and ye shall hear what he beheld In other lands, where he was doomed to go: Lands that contain the monuments of Eld, Ere Greece and Grecian arts by ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2 • George Gordon Byron
... teacher insists is an elemental requirement of fiction if it isn't of life. I thought this summer I was going to begin some sort of book just for practice, but by the time I get through putting down the things I scribble about the day's doings, and write to Father and send my weekly letter to Mother and the girls, and run off something every now and then to Billy, and answer the notes I get from Whythe and some of the kiddies around here who think they're grown, I don't ...
— Kitty Canary • Kate Langley Bosher


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