单词 | scribbler |
释义 | scribblern.1 1. A person who scribbles. a. An author, journalist, or other writer, esp. one who produces a large quantity of writing, or whose work is regarded as worthless or poorly composed.In quot. 1834 used appositively in scribbler-satirist: a person who writes satire of little merit. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > inferior writer scribblera1556 paper-blurrera1586 by-writer1587 feather-driver1593 squitter-book1594 paper-stainer1596 blur-paper1603 spoil-paper1610 penster1611 inkhorn matea1616 squitter-wit1615 ink-dabbler1616 squitter-pulpa1640 quill-driver1700 scribble-scrabble1707 authorling1752 writerling1802 inkhorn varlet1820 toe-writer1845 pen-driver1854 anonymuncule1859 ink-jerker1865 pen-pusher1875 pseudonymuncle1875 ink-spiller1881 ink-slinger1887 blotter- a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) iii. v. sig. F.ij Fare thou well scribler... Scriuener. Fare ye well bibbler. 1610 Bp. J. Hall Common Apol. against Brownists ii. 5 I neuer yet could see any Scribler so vnlearned, as that he durst not charge his opposite with ignorance. 1682 J. Dryden Religio Laici Pref. sig. b1 The first Presbyterian Scribler. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. Ded. p. iii I have known some Scriblers, or Authors, dedicate their Works to great Men who they hardly knew any more of than their illustrious Names. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Scribbler, a petty author; a writer without worth. 1778 F. Burney Jrnl. Aug. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 78 She talked..very highly, of a new novel called Evelina; (though without a shadow of suspicion as to the scribbler). 1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 727/1 Slave parasite and joker, With scribbler-satirist. 1880 L. Stephen Alexander Pope v. 124 The Dunciad was thus a declaration of war against the whole tribe of scribblers. 1908 Dial 16 July 28/1 From the time of his early twenties, Lie had been a scribbler of verse. 1947 G. Middleton These Things Are Mine p. viii A scribbler could only write of whatever little world he knew and had a part in. 2011 Wired July 98/1 Classic movies about journalism venerated a world of daily deadlines and fast-talking scribblers. b. A person who writes in an irregular or untidy hand. ΚΠ 1809 Ld. Collingwood Let. 5 Feb. in Select. Public & Private Corr. (1828) 432 I think I can know the character of a lady pretty nearly by her hand-writing...The scribblers flatter themselves with the vain hope, that, as their letter cannot be read, it may be mistaken for sense. 1869 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 426 In this age of haste and hurry illegible scrawls are the rule..; and it is in the interest of the mass of the scribblers and scrawlers that I ask this question. 1909 Editor & Publisher 25 Dec. 19/1 To reform the penmanship of the United States; to lead or drive 50,000,000 scribblers so that they will write rapidly, easily and legibly. 1957 Tampico (Illinois) Tornado 1 Aug. We are a nation of illegible scribblers. Education has not taught many of us how to write legibly. 1999 W. J. Bennett et al. Educated Child 159 If we're raising a generation of messy scribblers, it's possible that computers are part of the problem. 2. Originally and chiefly Canadian. A notebook; an exercise book. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > pad of paper > rough work book blotting-book1598 scribbler1890 scratch pad1895 scratch-block1897 rough book1969 1890 Bks. & Notions May 20 (advt.) Have you seen the climax scribbler? 1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist iii. 119 Stephen, leaning back and drawing idly on his scribbler, listened to the talk about him. 1939 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Ingleside xxxix. 309 We write each other letters in our scribblers and exchange them. 1969 K. Giles Death cracks Bottle vi. 57 [He] had taken a page from his scribbler and written on it. 2000 J. King Blue Moon xxxvi. 274 In my large suitcase was my small archive: seven small diaries and four scribblers. Derivatives ˈscribblerism n. rare the activity or product of a scribbler; worthless or poorly composed work. ΚΠ 1801 S. T. Coleridge Let. 1 Aug. (1956) II. 749 Other Perseverants in the noble Trade of Scriblerism. 1901 Sat. Rev. 2 Nov. 556/1 In the other essays..I find a gentleman who appears on the stage ‘under the footlights’, and other things just as amazing; and I leave them, admiring, dumbfounded by, the splendours of scribblerism. 2001 B. P. Lenman in R. A. Houston & W. W. J. Knox New Penguin Hist. Scotl. v. 304 William Alexander, MD, whose History of Women (1779) is an incoherent monument to obsessive scribblerism and no guide to reality, let alone female reality. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). scribblern.2 1. Originally Scottish. A person employed to scribble wool (scribble v.2), or to supervise the running of a machine for scribbling wool. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing wool > [noun] > combing > one who kember1511 breaker1514 picker1536 wool-picker1536 wool carder1580 comber1658 scribbler1682 wool-comber1702 1682 in W. R. Scott Rec. Sc. Cloth Manufactory New Mills (1905) 16 To ingage 2 shear-men, 2 weavers, and 2 scrublers. 1733 P. Lindsay Interest Scotl. 109 We have but few Scriblers, who understand the close mixing of Wooll on the Cards for Medleys. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. i. 14 The wool-comber.., the dyer, the scribbler [etc.] . View more context for this quotation 1818 J. Maitland Observ. Impolity Exportation Brit. Wool 35 Every lock of wool that grows on its [sc. the sheep's] back, becomes the means of support to staplers, dyers, pickers, scourers, scribblers, carders [etc.]. 1894 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 5 439 The weavers, spinners, scribblers, and other woolen workers of Somerset. 1983 Proc. Royal Irish Acad. C 83 297 Other towns..had significant concentrations of weavers as well as numerous scribblers, carders and combers. 2005 D. Dickson Old World Colony iv. 132 The new demand for extra scribblers, carders and combers provided male employment equivalent in economic terms to weaving. 2. A machine for scribbling wool (see scribble v.2), typically having a number of rollers set with wire teeth through which the wool is fed, and which comb out and separate the fibres. Cf. wool-scribbler n. at wool n. Compounds 2a, woollen scribbler n. at woollen adj. and n. Compounds 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing wool > [noun] > combing > machine scribbler1800 wool-comb1870 1800 Minutes of Evid. Woollen Manufactory (House of Lords) 42 Scribblers and Carders, the Machines I was speaking of before. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 391 The scribbler-engine has three distinct parts or cylinders in one frame. 1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted (ed. 2) 191 We now have the wool ready for the scribbler, or first carding machine. 1932 Econ. Hist. Rev. 3 432 Other machines came about the same time—willies, scribblers, carders, and stubbing billies—which prepared the wool for the jenny. 2003 C. A. Lawrence Fund. Spun Yarn Technol. iii. 115 In woolen carding, the web from the scribbler is condensed into a thick sliver and cross-fed to the carder. 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