n. That which has been scribbled, written in a scrawled or careless hand.
v. Present participle of scribble.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The act or process of carding coarsely.
adj. Writing hastily or poorly.
n. The act of writing hastily or idly.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The act of writing hastily and carelessly.
n. The first coarse teasing or carding which wool or cotton receives.
Word Usage
"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."