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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 4

Part of speech: noun (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.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 4

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To card coarsely; to run through the scribling machine.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 4

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 4 of 4

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To write without care, elegance, or value; to scrawl. If Mævius scribble in Apollo's spite. Pope.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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