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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Scribble \Scrib"ble\, verb (used with an object) [Cf. {Scrabble}.] (Woolen Manuf.) To card coarsely; to run through the scribbling machine.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Scribble \Scrib"ble\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Scribble \Scrib"ble\, verb (used without an object) To write without care, elegance, or value; to scrawl.
If M[ae]vius scribble in Apollo's spite. --Pope.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Scribble \Scrib"ble\, noun 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
scribble
noun
1: poor handwriting [syn: {scratch}, {scrawl}, {cacography}]
2: an aimless drawing [syn: {scrabble}, {doodle}]
verb
1: write down quickly without much attention to detail [syn: {scrabble}]
2: write carelessly [syn: {scrawl}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
31 Moby Thesaurus words for "scribble": anamorphosis, bad likeness, barbouillage, botch, burlesque, caricature, daub, distortion, doodle, hen scratches, hen tracks, illegibility, indecipherability, jot down, misdraw, mispaint, parody, pattes de mouche, pothookery, pothooks, pothooks and hangers, scrabble, scratch, scrawl, scribbling, scribe, squiggle, travesty, undecipherability, unreadability, write
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
scribble n. 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.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
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. [{Jargon File}]
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