Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of writing hastily and carelessly.
- n. The first coarse teasing or carding which wool or cotton receives.
Wiktionary
- n. That which has been scribbled, written in a scrawled or careless hand.
- v. present participle of scribble.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act or process of carding coarsely.
- adj. Writing hastily or poorly.
- n. The act of writing hastily or idly.
Examples
“January 28th, 2010 at 3: 55 pm belaccifer lacca says: jwest - some napkin scribbling says that your 500 new nuclear reactors will run about 7 billion each.”
“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.”
“Perhaps 90 percent of the scribbling is the work of "taggers," or kids who mark their initials as a form of youthful rebellion.”
“Sometimes she could be seen with a despairing expression scribbling rapidly in her lock-up dairy.”
“The director favoured unorthodox methods of working, such as scribbling new dialogue on scraps of paper and handing them to the actors just before a take.”
“Gavston or Gauston twice encised, but to this "scribbling" Mr Weston S. Walford, who has a note on this tomb in the fifteenth volume of the”
“As he wrote in after years: "I had acquired from early boyhood the idea that it was expected of me to become a pianist, and every moment spent in 'scribbling' seemed to be stolen from the more legitimate work of piano practice.”
“As he wrote in after years: “I had acquired from early boyhood the idea that it was expected of me to become a pianist, and every moment spent in 'scribbling' seemed to be stolen from the more legitimate work of piano practice.””
“She could see no sense in taking the best hours of the day for "scribbling," and it was only in the later years when Father had a steady income from his writings that her point of view softened.”
“It should also make ebooks more relevant for education by simplyfing functions such as scribbling marginalia.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘scribbling’.
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Spinning
This list is basically an excuse for me to list the word wool four times in a row.
wool, spin, spinning, cotton, scribble, scribbler, scribbling, spindle whorl, spindlewhorl, card, card-clothing, carding-machine and 68 more...
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Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young ...
These words are from Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady, 1747-48
adumbrate, virago, varlet, rencounter, akimbo, palliate, amanuensis, amok, equipage, cully, se'ennight, resentments and 560 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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INTERP - VOCABULARY
The vocabulary of conference interpreting. I commend this list to those who want to know more about the profession and to those who wish to organize their knowledge about the profession. To aspirin...
retour language, A-language, B-language, C-language, relay language, take sy on relay, language booth, booth meeting, mic, mike, mission, freelance interpr... and 2086 more...
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uwitness's Words
incandescent, perchance, forsooth, stipulate, imaginary, anglepoise, cheeky, reminisce, intensify, watchful, scribbling
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KatieClove's Words
aye, musing, drunkard, scribbling, heartful, tea, kerouac, preciosity, a priori, eldritch, shiola, dharma bum and 11 more...
Tweets
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minerva Never was there such a pair of scribbling lovers as we--- yet perhaps whom it so much concerns to keep from each other what each writes.
Lovelace to Belford, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson Dec 4, 2007