单词 | scribblement |
释义 | scribblementn. Now rare. Something which is scribbled or written, esp. a quickly or carelessly composed piece of writing; a worthless or trivial piece of writing. Cf. scribble n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > [noun] > a scribble or scrawl scribblinga1555 scribble1577 scribblement1584 scrabble1842 scriggle1905 society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] > worthless or trivial pap1548 scribble1577 scribbling1711 dab1729 scribblement1785 fluff1906 non-book1960 1584 J. Dee Jrnl. in True & Faithful Relation Spirits (1659) i. 175 I see lines and scribblements (as before) going athwart the lines. 1628 A. Cooke Worke, More Worke, & Little More Worke for Masse-priest 152 By such scribblements as this you sent me, you will never giue anie of your owne friends, nor anie of my opinion, any reasonable satisfaction. c1662 F. Kerby in O. Heywood Autobiogr., Diaries, Anecd. & Event Bks. (1883) III. 24 The intents of them who first set down these scribblements. 1784 W. Cowper Let. 20 Oct. (1981) II. 289 I am tired of this endless scribblement. Adieu! 1785 W. Cowper Let. 22 Oct. (1981) II. 388 The crabbed Epigrams and Scribblements of the minor poets. 1833 T. Carlyle Let. 3 Dec. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1977) VII. 49 In about a week hence..I shall be done with this scribblement. 1887 T. A. Trollope What I Remember II. xvii. 349 The exhortation addressed to me..was the writer's characteristic mode of exciting me to new scribblements. 1930 J. Crichton-Browne What Doctor Thought Pref. These heterogeneous jottings..are a doctor's diversions, scribblements swiftly indited at halting-places on the professional highway. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1584 |
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