Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Scribble \Scrib"ble\, v. t. [Cf. {Scrabble}.] (Woolen Manuf.)
To card coarsely; to run through the scribbling machine.
Scribble \Scrib"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scribbled} (-b'ld);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Scribbling} (-bl[i^]ng).] [From {Scribe}.]
1. To write hastily or carelessly, without regard to
correctness or elegance; as, to scribble a letter.
2. To fill or cover with careless or worthless writing.
Scribble \Scrib"ble\, v. i.
To write without care, elegance, or value; to scrawl.
If M[ae]vius scribble in Apollo's spite. --Pope.
Scribble \Scrib"ble\, 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.
Source : WordNet®
scribble
n 1: poor handwriting [syn: {scratch}, {scrawl}, {cacography}]
2: an aimless drawing [syn: {scrabble}, {doodle}]
scribble
v 1: write down quickly without much attention to detail [syn: {scrabble}]
2: write carelessly [syn: {scrawl}]
Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
scribble
To modify a data structure in a random and unintentionally
destructive way. "Bletch! Somebody's disk-compactor program
went berserk and scribbled on the i-node table." "It was
working fine until one of the allocation routines scribbled on
low core." Synonymous with {trash}; compare {mung}, which
conveys a bit more intention, and {mangle}, which is more
violent and final.
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