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scribbler
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"petty author," 1550s, agent noun from scribble (v.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. informal terms for journalists [syn: scribe , penman ] a writer whose handwriting is careless and hard to read [syn: scrawler ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scribbling \Scrib"bling\, n. [See 1st Scribble .] The act or process of carding coarsely. Scribbling machine , the machine used for the first carding of wool or other fiber; -- called also scribbler .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Scribbler is a British chain of greetings card retail shops. As of July 2016, they have 33 outlets throughout the UK. Scribbler were founded in 1981, and as of 2012, are still run by the original management team. Scribbler state that they are "at the forefront ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ At least one contemporary reviewer got the feeling that the various scribblers were being praised more for their passports than their prose. ▪ But scribblers like me and Rob on the page before this? ▪ Clothiers, fullers, scribblers ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who scribbles; a hasty or untalented writer or artist. 2 (context dated English) A machine for coarse carding or tease of wool. 3 (label en Canadian) A ruled notebook or exercise book, especially in grade school.
Usage examples of scribbler.
The beam of light illuminated the dusty laths, as well as an object made of rags and an old exercise scribbler like the kind children used in school when they learned to print.
She pulled out the exercise scribbler and carried it down the hall to her own room, settling in the padded rocker by the window where she liked to feed Daniel.
Jackie closed the scribbler and rubbed her eyes, then locked the old book away in her nightstand again.
It is really the stupid egotism of authors that is the stumbling-block in the way of true literature,--each little scribbler that produces a shilling sensational thinks his or her own work a marvel of genius, and nothing can shake them from their obstinate conviction.
It takes no scribbler of antiquities to note Victorian styles still alive within us.
He recognised that Vane, poverty stricken scribbler though he might be, was a gentleman.
On the return to my homeland of the False Imam, piss be upon him, a voice visited me in the night, saying: Scribbler Nimrod!
Felix, an unfrocked monk, more of a scribbler than a scholar, and a young man named Schmidt, who gave good promise, and was already known to advantage in the literary world.
The evil tale was taken up in all its foul trappings, and, upon no better authority than the public voice, it was enshrined in chronicles by every scribbler of the day.
And here, some verses against the king, in which the scribbler leaves a blank for the name of George, as if his doggerel might yet exalt him to the pillory.
Murray Lachlan Young, a scribbler of doggerel, disappeared now, a nine-minute wonder, not the real deal like me.
It was the Chapter Coffee House, the meeting place of booksellers, authors who had made their names, and struggling scribblers hanging on to the skirts of the muses.
In London, for example, there are Anglican houses, and Presbyterian houses, houses where the scribblers of news or poetry gather to exchange lies, and houses where the general tone is set by men of knowledge who can read or pass an hour or so in conversation without being insulted by the ignorant or vomited on by the vulgar.
Fitzgerald or not, however, it must be allowed that the vulgarity, servility, and gross absurdity of the newspaper scribblers is well rendered.
Two ridiculous scribblers, that were often pestering the world with nonsense.