| 单词 | scribble |
| 释义 | scribble (once / 1341 pages) vn To scribble is to write something quickly and sloppily. You can also call someone's handwriting, if it's hard to read, a scribble. Have you ever made a note of something very quickly, and then later when you tried to read it, you couldn't? That's a scribble. People scribble when they need to write fast. The problem with scribbling—-making a scribble-—is that it’s hard to read. Some people have handwriting that is always hard to read: you can call poor handwriting a scribble. Doctors are famous for their scribbles. The Latin root is scribere, "to write." WORD FAMILYscribble: scribbled, scribbler, scribbles, scribbling+/scribbler: scribblers USAGE EXAMPLESBut this time, Plum was scribbling on posters and a little girl’s jersey nearly an hour after the game. Seattle Times(Dec 27, 2016) This happens often, but instead of just audio, Jarmusch scribbles Paterson’s verses across the screen, daring us to really consider the words. Washington Times(Dec 27, 2016) His name is scribbled in child’s writing on a light switch in the bedroom he and his mother shared. New York Times(Dec 25, 2016) 1v write down quickly without much attention to detail Syn|Hyper scrabble write communicate or express by writing 2v write carelessly Syn|Hyper scrawl write mark or trace on a surface 3n poor handwriting Syn|Hypo|Hyper cacography, scratch, scrawl chicken scratch cramped or illegible handwriting squigglean illegible scrawl hand, handwriting, script something written by hand 4n an aimless drawing Syn|Hyper doodle, scrabble drawing a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines |
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