单词 | to scribble up |
释义 | > as lemmasto scribble up to scribble up transitive. To compile or compose (a text) in a hurried or unconsidered way. ΚΠ 1557 R. Edgeworth Serm. very Fruitfull Pref. sig. ✠.iii I..vsed to pen my sermons muche like as I entended to vtter them to the audience: others I scribled vp not so perfitlie. 1596 H. Clapham Briefe of Bible ii. 234 I haue for your vses, sodainly scribled vp this Breviarie of the Bible. 1619 J. Hales Let. 4 Jan. 57 in Golden Remains (1659) His sudden and unexpected departure hath made me scrible up this, more rudely and concisely than I had intended. 1657 D. F. Let. Addr. to Protector 3 A thousand such idle and illogical rhapsodies scribled up with impertinency. 1764 J. Cunningham Let. 3 Nov. in Life (1781) p. ix After a tedious fit of idleness I scribbled up an affair, within these few days, which I call An Apologue. 1897 E. B. Tweedie Through Finland in Carts 195 We idled generally; wrote letters, scribbled up our diaries, chatted or made sketches. 1906 World's Work Sept. 7991/1 I scribbled up some sort of application and addressed it simply to ‘Booker T. Washington’. 2007 D. McGrady Eating Royally ii. 8 While the Queen does have the final say on what she wants to eat, she doesn't spend her time scribbling up menus and shopping lists! < as lemmas |
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