单词 | to scribble away |
释义 | > as lemmasto scribble away † to scribble away Obsolete. extracted from scribblev.1 transitive. To compose and send (a letter) in a hasty and sometimes careless manner. ΚΠ 1777 Westm. Mag. July 371/2 He sits down to his desk..and scribbles away a parcel of letters that are hardly worth the postage. 1819 J. W. Alexander Let. 5 May in Forty Years' Familiar Lett. (1860) I. i. 1 I set myself down to scribble away a scrawl to let you know I was safely landed. 1826 J. W. Croker Let. 20 Mar. in L. J. Jennings Croker Papers (1884) I. xi. 292 I was easily induced to take up my pen against him, and I scribbled away a reply to Sir Walter. < as lemmas |
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