| 单词 | scribbling itch |
| 释义 | > as lemmasscribbling itch scribbling itch n. [translating classical Latin scribendī cacoēthes (Juvenal Satires 7. 52) < cacoēthes cacoethes n. + scrībendī , genitive of scrībendum , gerund of scrībere to write (see scribe n.1)] an irresistible urge to write.Frequently in figurative contexts. ΚΠ 1683 J. Oldham Poems & Transl. 18 Give o're Thy scribling itch, and play the fool no more. 1787 J. Wolcot Ode upon Ode in Wks. (1812) I. 440 I'm much afraid of that same scribbling-itch. 1883 Methodist Q. Rev. Apr. 218 Without intending it, he gave to hundreds of men and women the scribbling itch, (cacœthes scribendi). 1905 A. Dobson in Cambr. Rev. 2 Mar. 226/1 Some scribbling itch attacked Him in and out of season. 2012 B. Hammond in D. Sergeant & F. Stafford Burns & Other Poets xiii. 170 The scribbling itch, the syphilitic writing-disease maddening half the artisans in the land. < as lemmas |
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