scribble

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
scribble
    n 1: poor handwriting [syn: {scribble}, {scratch}, {scrawl},
         {cacography}]
    2: an aimless drawing [syn: {scribble}, {scrabble}, {doodle}]
    v 1: write down quickly without much attention to detail [syn:
         {scribble}, {scrabble}]
    2: write carelessly [syn: {scribble}, {scrawl}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Scribble \Scrib"ble\, v. t. [Cf. {Scrabble}.] (Woolen Manuf.)
   To card coarsely; to run through the scribbling machine.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To fill or cover with careless or worthless writing.
      [1913 Webster]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Scribble \Scrib"ble\, v. i.
   To write without care, elegance, or value; to scrawl.
   [1913 Webster]

         If Maevius scribble in Apollo's spite.   --Pope.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Scribble \Scrib"ble\, n.
   Hasty or careless writing; a writing of little value; a
   scrawl; as, a hasty scribble. --Boyle.
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         Neither did I but vacant seasons spend
         In this my scribble.                     --Bunyan.
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from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
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 (8 July 2008)
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}]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
antiflux / dictionary / scribble
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