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Definition of Scribbling
1. n. The act or process of carding coarsely.
2. a. Writing hastily or poorly.
3. n. The act of writing hastily or idly.
Definition of Scribbling
1. Noun. That which has been scribbled, written in a scrawled or careless hand. ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of scribble) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scribbling
1. scribble [v] - See also: scribble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scribbling
Literary usage of Scribbling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most by Charles Molloy Westmacott, Stephen Jones, Robert Cruikshank, George Cruikshank (1815)
"*.rj > OF A scribbling MIL'L. E public .papers having lately informed us,, that
a valuable scribbling Mill has been destroyed by fire, and the damage ..."
2. Freemason's Magazine, Or General and Complete Library (1796)
"AS there is no art so extensively cultivated as that of scribbling, I intend to
make a few remarks upon it; and as Aristotle planned his rules for the ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"... at the expense of the State, a fac-similé of the ' scribbling book of an
infant,' and issuing it as the hieroglyphics of the Red Indians. ..."
4. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"... British headpiece ; afterwards came upstairs to change it (having put on the
British tile for Sunday and parade), and fall to scribbling to my girls. ..."
5. Fanny Burney and Her Friends: Select Passages from Her Diary and Other Writings by Fanny Burney, Leonard Benton Seeley (1892)
"... in Childhood—Her Mother's Death—David Garrick—The Old Lady—The Wig-maker—Neglect
of Fanny's Education —Her Taste for scribbling—Samuel Crisp—His Early ..."
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