A person who scribbles. An author, journalist, or other writer, esp. one who produces a large quantity of writing, or whose work is regarded as…

an inferior writer.

(a) = quill-driver, n., (b) ‘one who cleanses feathers by whisking them about’ (Johnson).

a scribbler, a copious but worthless writer.

A person who stains or colours paper. Also (humorous and depreciative): an inferior writer; a clerk.

a writer who merely blurs paper; a scribbler.

a petty author or scribbler.

A person who uses a pen, esp. in a trivial way; a petty writer, a literary hack. Usually humorous or mildly derogatory.

= squitter-book n.

a scribbler.

= squitter-book n.

A person whose job involves writing, esp. of a repetitious or tedious nature; a (hack) writer; a clerk. Cf. pen-pusher, n.

A person who scribbles or writes (see scribble, v.1 2a). Obsolete. rare.

An inferior or minor author; an insignificant writer.

A writer who produces inferior or insignificant works; a minor author. Later chiefly: spec. a young or aspiring writer.

contemptuous appellations for a scribbler.

one who writes with his toes; in quot. allusively.

A petty or insignificant person who writes anonymously. Cf. pseudonymuncle, n.

= ink-slinger n.

A clerk; a (low-level) bureaucrat. Also: a writer, a hack. Frequently derogatory. Cf. pencil pusher n. at pencil, n. compounds 2.

A petty or insignificant person who writes under a pseudonym. Cf. anonymuncule, n.

= ink-slinger n.

a contemptuous appellation for a professional writer, esp. a reckless writer in the newspaper press.

One who, or that which, blots. A scribbler, a sorry writer.