SCRIBBLING

n. a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The act or process of carding coarsely. Scribbing machine, the machine used for the first carding of wool or other fiber; -- called also scribbler.

2.
a.

Writing hastily or poorly. Ye newspaper witlings! ye pert scribbling folks! Goldsmith.

3.
n.

The act of writing hastily or idly.