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語源 1

From 中期英語 scribblen, scriblen, scryblen, scribelen, equivalent to scribe +‎ -le (frequentative suffix).

動詞

scribble (third-person singular simple present scribbles, present participle scribbling, simple past and past participle scribbled)

1. (ambitransitive) To write or draw carelessly and in a hurry.

   Synonym: scrabble

   I suddenly remembered I needed to buy bleach, so scribbled it down on my shopping list.

2. To doodle.
3. To write badly; to work as an inferior author or journalist.

同意語

• (all senses): scrawl

等位語

• (write hurriedly): jot

派生語

• multo-scribbling
• scribble down
• scribbler
• scribbleress
• transcribble

関連する語

• scribe

名詞

scribble (countable and uncountable, plural scribbles)

1. Careless, hasty writing, doodle or drawing

同意語

派生語

語源 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Swedish skrubbla?”)

動詞

scribble (third-person singular simple present scribbles, present participle scribbling, simple past and past participle scribbled)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To card or tease (wool) coarsely; to run through a scribbler.

Further reading

• “scribble”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “scribble”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• cribbles