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scribbledehobble|ˈskrɪb(ə)ldɪˌhɒb(ə)l|
James Joyce's nonce-formation on scribble n. or v.1, prob. influenced by such a word as hobbledehoy, the etymology of which is obscure. Hence, the name given to one of Joyce's notebooks (see quot. 1961).
1922Joyce in T. E. Connoly James Joyce's Scribbledehobble (1961) 5 Scribbledehobble..I'm feeling so funny all over the same. 1939― Finnegans Wake ii. 275 That royal pair..have discusst..why lui lied to lei and hun tried to kill ham, scribbledehobbles, in whose veins runs a mixture of, are head bent and hard upon. 1961Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Oct. 754/3 Of the fifty Finnegans Wake notebooks now in the Lockwood Memorial Library the Scribbledehobble book is the largest... It contains words, phrases, clichés, anecdotes, ideas, scraps of information and other memoranda. 1977J. Garvin in D. Ó Muirithe Eng. Lang. in Ireland 113 Scribbledhobble [sic], a note⁓book..compiled by him [sc. Joyce] in 1923..contain[s] simple phrases probably culled from his wife's conversations. |