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▪ I. † scrib1 Obs. [? var. of scrub.] ? A miser. (Quot. 1608 is obscure, and the text may be corrupt; with ‘bonny scribs’ cf. ‘bonny scrubs’ in scrub n.3)
1600Breton Pasquils Madcap 16 If she haue playde the thrifty prowling scribbe, To purchase Grasse to greaze the Bullockes ribbe. 1608Middleton Mad World iii. iii, Why then set forward; and as you scorne..tweluepenny Pandarisme, and such base bribes, guard me from bonny Scribs, and bony Scribes [ed. 1640 adds and bony rags]. 1634Withal's Dict. 575 Promus magis quam condus. He is none of these miserable scribs, but a liberall Gentleman. ▪ II. † scrib2 nonce-wd. Abbreviation of scribble n.
1795Dr. Burney Let. to Mme. D'Arblay 7 May, It strikes three o'clock;..and I must send off my scrib. |