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Scribble

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To write hurriedly without heed to legibility or style.

v. To cover with scribbles, doodles, or meaningless marks.

verb-intransitive. To write or draw in a hurried careless way.

n. Careless hurried writing.

n. Meaningless marks and lines.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To write or draw carelessly and in a hurry

v. To doodle

v. To card or tease (wool) coarsely; to run through a scribbler.

n. Careless, hasty writing or drawing

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To card coarsely; to run through the scribbling machine.

v. To write hastily or carelessly, without regard to correctness or elegance.

v. To fill or cover with careless or worthless writing.

verb-intransitive. To write without care, elegance, or value; to scrawl.

n. Hasty or careless writing; a writing of little value; a scrawl.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To write with haste, or without care or regard to correctness or elegance: as, to scribble a letter or pamphlet.

To cover or fill with careless or worthless writing, or unintelligible and entangled lines.

To write without care or regard for correctness or elegance; scrawl; make unintelligible and entangled lines on paper or a slate for mere amusement, as a child does.

n. Hurried or careless writing; a scrawl; hence, a shallow or trivial composition or article: as, a hasty scribble.

n. [In the following quotation the word is used figuratively for a hurried, scrambling manner of walking, opposed to “a set pace,” as a scribble is to “a set copy.”

To card or tease coarsely; pass, as cotton or wool, through a scribbler.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. write carelessly

n. an aimless drawing

v. write down quickly without much attention to detail

n. poor handwriting

Word Usage

"I see you are always _at it_ in the old way -- _scribble, scribble, scribble_! ""

Verb Form

scribbled scribbles scribbling

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

write drawing

Cross Reference

composition

Form

scribbled scribbling

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

scrawl write scrabble scratch

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Sibyl dibble dribble gribble kibble