scribble

English

Etymology

From early modern English (deprecated template usage) scrible, frequentive of (deprecated template usage) scribe.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -ɪbəl

Verb

scribble (third-person singular simple present scribbl, present participle ing, simple past and past participle scribbled)

1. To write or draw carelessly and in a hurry
2. To doodle
3. (deprecated template usage) (obsolete) To card or tease (wool) coarsely; to run through a scribbler.

Synonyms

• scrawl

Related terms

• scribe

Translations

to write or draw carelessly and in a hurry

• Armenian: խզբզել (xzbzel)
• Esperanto: skribaĉi
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: schmieren (de)
• Hungarian: firkál
• Italian: scarabocchiare, schiccherare
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: bazgrać (pl), gryzmolić
• Russian: царапать (ru) (carápatʹ) (lit.: to scratch), шкрябать (škrjábatʹ) (lit.: to scratch, from Ukrainian "шкрябати")
• Spanish: garabatear
• Vietnamese: viết nguệch ngoạc, viết cẩu thả

to doodle

• Armenian: խզբզել (xzbzel)
• Hungarian: firkál
• Italian: scarabocchiare
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: марать бумагу (marátʹ bumágu) (to soil paper)
• Spanish: garabatear, garrapatear

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Translations to be checked

• (deprecated template usage) French: griffonner, gribouiller
• (deprecated template usage) Dutch: krabbelen (verb), kattebelletje; kladje (noun)
• (deprecated template usage) German: kritzeln
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• (deprecated template usage) Hebrew: שרבוט
• (deprecated template usage) Spanish: garabatear

Noun

scribble (plural scribbles)

1. Careless, hasty writing, doodle or drawing

External links

• “scribble”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “scribble”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.