Crossword clues for scribble
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scribble \Scrib"ble\, v. t. [Cf. Scrabble.] (Woolen Manuf.) To card coarsely; to run through the scribbling machine.
Scribble \Scrib"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scribbled (-b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Scribbling (-bl[i^]ng).] [From Scribe.]
To write hastily or carelessly, without regard to correctness or elegance; as, to scribble a letter.
To fill or cover with careless or worthless writing.
Scribble \Scrib"ble\, n.
Hasty or careless writing; a writing of little value; a
scrawl; as, a hasty scribble.
--Boyle.
Neither did I but vacant seasons spend
In this my scribble.
--Bunyan.
Scribble \Scrib"ble\, v. i. To write without care, elegance, or value; to scrawl.
If M[ae]vius scribble in Apollo's spite.
--Pope.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Medieval Latin scribillare, diminutive of Latin scribere "to write" (see script (n.)). Related: Scribbled; scribbling. The noun, "hurried or careless writing," is 1570s, from the verb.
Wiktionary
n. Careless, hasty writing, doodle or drawing vb. 1 To write or draw carelessly and in a hurry 2 To doodle 3 (context obsolete English) To card or tease (wool) coarsely; to run through a scribbler.
WordNet
n. poor handwriting [syn: scratch, scrawl, cacography]
Wikipedia
"Scribble" is a song by electronic group Underworld. It was released as the first single from their album Barking. The track, co-produced by High Contrast, was released as a digital single on 28 June 2010.
Usage examples of "scribble".
Their sign was scribbled on the walls of the cave, odd angular marks from some lost pattern of writing.
For one thing, I could see now that his blotter was covered with scribbles: doodles, telephone numbers, what looked like case numbers, cartoon dogs and cats in various poses, appointments, names and addresses, drawings of cars with flames shooting from the tailpipes.
Wintergreen, who scribbled a brusque, unsigned reminder that the Army had only one Major Major Major Major and did not intend to lose him by promotion just to please Colonel Cathcart.
His voice faded in midsentence as his eye happened to fall on a bit of scribbled marginalia that captured his attention and drew him down into his padded desk chair, where he was soon comparing notes he had made with passages in two open books, absorbed and quite unaware of my presence.
If the accounts of Rackham Perfumeries are cruel drudgery for a man of his temperament, what must this girl, barely past adolescence, brimful of life and promise, be suffering as she scribbles?
This, indeed, was the normal aspect it presented, for Portia found it easier to scribble off her correspondence at an unassuming white--enamel-painted table, whereon her buvard, in old-stamped leather, found its resting-place.
Even as Blaze spoke, Sare had pushed her plate away and was scribbling another card.
The mingled sacred and profane smoke lofted a succession of small paper balloons, bearing tiny animal sacrifices or scribbled prayers, to the midday sky and to the gods.
From the stack of invitations he selected theirs, scribbled a ballpoint signature at the bottom, and dropped the reply in the nearest box.
She is sitting on the floor, surrounded by his periodicals, reading the notes he has scribbled into several canary-yellow legal tablets.
She tore the hastily scribbled pages from the pad and returned it to him.
A noble ambition, but many of these epistles were nothing more than scribbled threats on peeled beer mats and ripped up fag packets, dark truths and even darker lies.
Look, my body is getting shrivelled and the bath water going cold, my log book damp as these notes are scribbled in this bath.
Head bent to hide her smile, Diana scribbled a few final comments into her notebook while he dealt with the remaining fans.
He scribbled on a piece of paper and had it ready to hand to her when she returned.