bescribblev.
/bɪˈskrɪb(ə)l/ 1. transitive. To write in a scrawling hand, to scribble.
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society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > write in specific style [verb (transitive)] > illegibly or untidily
scribblec1456
bescribble1582
scrawl1612
scratch1806
scribble-scrabble1847
scrabble1856
squiggle1942
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 57 Her prophecyes in greene leaues nicelye be scribled.
1840 T. Hook Fitzherbert III. xvii. 333 The superscription was so bescribbled that even Miss Bartley's sidelong glance could decipher nothing.
2. To scribble about; to scribble on. Also figurative.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > be the author of or write (a work) [verb (transitive)] > express in written work or write about
writeOE
inditea1340
pena1527
pursue1558
to lay down1583
discur1586
paper1594
style1605
word1613
exercisea1616
bescribble1643
describble1794
bewrite1875
society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > write in specific style [verb (transitive)] > illegibly or untidily > cover with
blota1513
scribble1540
daub1589
bescrawl1641
scrawl1647
bescribble1807
overscrawl1871
1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 31 That power..[he] hath improperly usurpt into his Court-leet, and bescribbl'd with a thousand trifling impertinencies.
1807 Salmagundi 4 Feb. 32 He be-scribbled more paper than would serve the theatre for snow-storms a whole season.
Derivatives
beˈscribbled adj.
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1840Bescribbled [see sense 1].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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