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单词 scribble
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scribble1

verbˈskrɪb(ə)lˈskrɪbəl
[with object]
  • 1Write or draw (something) carelessly or hurriedly.

    he took the clipboard and scribbled something illegible
    no object hastily he scribbled in the margin
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He quickly scribbled down what he was to tell her, feeling like an idiot.
    • Lenny scribbled on his pad of paper, then turned his eyes to me.
    • And apparently when I was a kid; I use to scribble in books with a pen before I could even write so I was always trying to do something.
    • I look at it curiously, my name hurriedly scribbled on the front.
    • He hastily scribbled an apologetic note and left it on Pierre's sleeping form.
    • They began to whisper, and one man scribbled on a spiral notepad.
    • Marcia scribbled furiously in her own notebook, apparently quite preoccupied with whatever part of her story she was writing.
    • He sat there the whole period grunting to himself and scribbling furiously in his notebooks.
    • He frowned, scribbling madly on his clipboard.
    • I hurriedly scribbled his phone number on a pad of paper with trembling hands and hung up.
    • I kept writing then scribbling out then writing again then scribbling out words at random.
    • When we got back he'd managed to scribble a few lines in his notebook with his dud hand.
    • I listened to him and I remembered my own thoughts scribbled in a diary.
    • Gabrielle was furiously scribbling down what she was saying when she heard another boys' voice in her ear.
    • The waitress nodded and scribbled on her order pad, handing them menus.
    • He didn't have any choice anyway, so Kelvin scribbled his signature on the end.
    • I opened it and found a hastily scribbled note smudged in places by water droplets.
    • Officials had to place his hand on documents for him to scribble his signature.
    Synonyms
    write hurriedly, write untidily, write illegibly, scratch, scrawl, doodle, dash off, jot (down)
    1. 1.1informal no object Write for a living or as a hobby.
      they scribbled, potted, and painted
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In those cases, I feel duty-bound to scribble a few paragraphs.
      • She scribbles frantically on sheets of paper, then hunts through desk drawers for more writing material.
      • To her writing was something she loved to do - she never cared whether she won plaudits from critics, she was happy to scribble whenever a story came to her.
      • And as far as I'm concerned, other people can scribble whatever they want about it.
      • I'm sure many of my colleagues are frantically scribbling away on their bestsellers in their spare time.
nounˈskrɪb(ə)lˈskrɪbəl
  • A piece of writing or a picture produced carelessly or hurriedly.

    illegible scribbles
    mass noun the postman would never be able to decipher your scribble
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I scratched my head and looked down at the scribbles in my notebook.
    • But is not the taking seriously of this kind of comment the equivalent of the exhibition curator placing an artist's kitchen table scribble alongside one of his major drawings?
    • Over each print are differently colored washes and scribbles.
    • Inspired by notes and scribbles already on the pages, Byron commenced a program of drawing, painting and collage.
    • Although the pilot creates confident spurts of white, the lines eventually pull apart, becoming just scribbles in the sky.
    • The brothers practice an idiom of grandly lyric, gestural abstraction - scrawls and scribbles across a compositional field of contrasting grounds, currently silk and lead.
    • Before that I made these dream journals and they were filled with poetry and scribbles.
    • In some episodes where a threat lurks, the colored scribbles grow dense and fraught, mutely warning against dangers that the character is too naive to see for himself.
    • The world starts making sense, and the meaningless scribbles are left behind.
    • All of them contain organic, cell-like splotches, dots and drips of predominantly pastel colors that are overlaid with black lines, darker scribbles and cryptic hieroglyphs.
    • As is characteristic of Johns's graphic work of this time, the drawings feature freehand scribbles, carefully limned curves, erasures and tonal blurring.
    • The scribble does something besides provide a sense of enclosure, however: it creates a landmark.
    • The designers have taught me how to use proper proofing marks rather than random scribbles.
    • Mysterious psychedelic scribbles fill other windows, some with a figure caught within the web of marks.
    • I was asleep one night in Hollywood and woke up one morning with my notepad full of scribble and I read it.
    • You give these words, meaningless scribbles, you give them life and shape.
    • The students nodded and made various scribbles in their notebooks.
    • He smears the hues and tears the forms and scribbles across the surface in a kind of eloquent frenzy.
    Synonyms
    illegible handwriting, hurried handwriting, untidy handwriting, squiggle(s), jottings
    rare cacography

Derivatives

  • scribbly

  • adjectivescribblier, scribbliest
    • With a nearly unreadable signature (everyone knew his scribbly writing anyway), Jerry signed his name and anxiously took his seat at the back of the room, polishing his silver-painted tuba.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Drawn with a relaxed ink line, scribbly shading and a mix of watercolour and gouache, the book has the slightly muted and nostalgic tones of early comics and dated toy packaging.
      • Technology and inspired creativity have taken the scribbly, animated style of that music video that everyone remembers and turned it into an innovative, impressionist art form for the silver screen.
      • At least, I assume that the scribbly zigzag line is Tony's signature and not something the bookshop asked one of their junior staff to forge.
      • A scribbly pencil line cut through the clumps of paint or twisted around the perimeter.

Origin

Late Middle English: from medieval Latin scribillare, diminutive of Latin scribere 'write'.

Rhymes

dibble, dribble, fribble, Gribble, kibble, nibble, quibble

scribble2

verbˈskrɪb(ə)lˈskrɪbəl
[with object]often as noun scribbling
  • Card (wool, cotton, etc.) coarsely.

    machinery used for scribbling and spinning
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It derives its name from Scribbling Herse, a frame on which the cloth when first made was stretched in order that it might be scribbled.
    • The first set of papers is the diary, from 1808 to 1814, of Joseph Rogerson, who ran a mill to which the clothiers brought their wool to be scribbled and prepared for spinning.
    • Afterwards it is oiled with Gallipoli oil, scribbled, carded, slabed, and spun.

Origin

Late 17th century: probably from Low German; compare with German schrubbeln (in the same sense), frequentative of Low German schrubben 'to scrub'.

 
 

scribble1

verbˈskrɪbəlˈskribəl
[with object]
  • 1Write or draw (something) carelessly or hurriedly.

    he took the clipboard and scribbled something illegible
    no object hastily he scribbled in the margin
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Marcia scribbled furiously in her own notebook, apparently quite preoccupied with whatever part of her story she was writing.
    • I kept writing then scribbling out then writing again then scribbling out words at random.
    • Officials had to place his hand on documents for him to scribble his signature.
    • They began to whisper, and one man scribbled on a spiral notepad.
    • He didn't have any choice anyway, so Kelvin scribbled his signature on the end.
    • Gabrielle was furiously scribbling down what she was saying when she heard another boys' voice in her ear.
    • He frowned, scribbling madly on his clipboard.
    • I opened it and found a hastily scribbled note smudged in places by water droplets.
    • When we got back he'd managed to scribble a few lines in his notebook with his dud hand.
    • He sat there the whole period grunting to himself and scribbling furiously in his notebooks.
    • I listened to him and I remembered my own thoughts scribbled in a diary.
    • I look at it curiously, my name hurriedly scribbled on the front.
    • I hurriedly scribbled his phone number on a pad of paper with trembling hands and hung up.
    • He quickly scribbled down what he was to tell her, feeling like an idiot.
    • Lenny scribbled on his pad of paper, then turned his eyes to me.
    • The waitress nodded and scribbled on her order pad, handing them menus.
    • He hastily scribbled an apologetic note and left it on Pierre's sleeping form.
    • And apparently when I was a kid; I use to scribble in books with a pen before I could even write so I was always trying to do something.
    Synonyms
    write hurriedly, write untidily, write illegibly, scratch, scrawl, doodle, dash off, jot, jot down
    1. 1.1informal no object Write for a living or as a hobby.
      she spent her last years scribbling and painting
      Example sentencesExamples
      • To her writing was something she loved to do - she never cared whether she won plaudits from critics, she was happy to scribble whenever a story came to her.
      • She scribbles frantically on sheets of paper, then hunts through desk drawers for more writing material.
      • I'm sure many of my colleagues are frantically scribbling away on their bestsellers in their spare time.
      • And as far as I'm concerned, other people can scribble whatever they want about it.
      • In those cases, I feel duty-bound to scribble a few paragraphs.
nounˈskrɪbəlˈskribəl
  • A piece of writing or a picture produced carelessly or hurriedly.

    illegible scribbles
    he would never be able to decipher your scribble
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The scribble does something besides provide a sense of enclosure, however: it creates a landmark.
    • You give these words, meaningless scribbles, you give them life and shape.
    • In some episodes where a threat lurks, the colored scribbles grow dense and fraught, mutely warning against dangers that the character is too naive to see for himself.
    • As is characteristic of Johns's graphic work of this time, the drawings feature freehand scribbles, carefully limned curves, erasures and tonal blurring.
    • I was asleep one night in Hollywood and woke up one morning with my notepad full of scribble and I read it.
    • The students nodded and made various scribbles in their notebooks.
    • Mysterious psychedelic scribbles fill other windows, some with a figure caught within the web of marks.
    • The brothers practice an idiom of grandly lyric, gestural abstraction - scrawls and scribbles across a compositional field of contrasting grounds, currently silk and lead.
    • Before that I made these dream journals and they were filled with poetry and scribbles.
    • He smears the hues and tears the forms and scribbles across the surface in a kind of eloquent frenzy.
    • But is not the taking seriously of this kind of comment the equivalent of the exhibition curator placing an artist's kitchen table scribble alongside one of his major drawings?
    • All of them contain organic, cell-like splotches, dots and drips of predominantly pastel colors that are overlaid with black lines, darker scribbles and cryptic hieroglyphs.
    • The world starts making sense, and the meaningless scribbles are left behind.
    • The designers have taught me how to use proper proofing marks rather than random scribbles.
    • Over each print are differently colored washes and scribbles.
    • I scratched my head and looked down at the scribbles in my notebook.
    • Although the pilot creates confident spurts of white, the lines eventually pull apart, becoming just scribbles in the sky.
    • Inspired by notes and scribbles already on the pages, Byron commenced a program of drawing, painting and collage.
    Synonyms
    illegible handwriting, hurried handwriting, untidy handwriting, squiggle, squiggles, jottings

Origin

Late Middle English: from medieval Latin scribillare, diminutive of Latin scribere ‘write’.

scribble2

verbˈskrɪbəlˈskribəl
[with object]often as noun scribbling
  • Card (wool, cotton, etc.) coarsely.

    machinery used for scribbling and spinning
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It derives its name from Scribbling Herse, a frame on which the cloth when first made was stretched in order that it might be scribbled.
    • Afterwards it is oiled with Gallipoli oil, scribbled, carded, slabed, and spun.
    • The first set of papers is the diary, from 1808 to 1814, of Joseph Rogerson, who ran a mill to which the clothiers brought their wool to be scribbled and prepared for spinning.

Origin

Late 17th century: probably from Low German; compare with German schrubbeln (in the same sense), frequentative of Low German schrubben ‘to scrub’.

 
 
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