meaning of scribble
1. To card coarsely; to run through the scribbling machine.
2. To write hastily or carelessly, without regard to correctness or elegance; as, to scribble a letter.
3. To fill or cover with careless or worthless writing.
4. To write without care, elegance, or value; to scrawl.
5. Hasty or careless writing; a writing of little value; a scrawl; as, a hasty scribble.
6. scribble To modify a data structure in a random and unintentionally destructive way. "Bletch! Somebodys disk-compactor program went berserk and scribbled on the i-node table. " "It was working fine until one of the allocation routines scribbled on low core. " Synonymous with trash; compare mung, which conveys a bit more intention, and mangle, which is more violent and final. [Jargon File] Scribe A text-formatting language by Brian Reid.
7. an aimless drawing
Related Words
scribble | scribbled | scribblement | scribbler |
