SCRIBBLE

v. n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To card coarsely; to run through the scribling machine.

2.
v.

To write hastily or carelessly, without regard to correctness or elegance; as, to scribble a letter.

3.
v.

To fill or cover with careless or worthless writing.

4.
v.

To write without care, elegance, or value; to scrawl. If Mævius scribble in Apollo's spite. Pope.

5.
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.

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