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What (who) is scribble - definition

SIMPLE DRAWING
Doodling; Scribble
  • Doodle by [[Luise von Mecklenburg-Strelitz]], Queen of Prussia, c. 1795
  • A typical page from Pushkin's manuscript

scribble         
scribble1
¦ verb
1. write or draw carelessly or hurriedly.
2. informal write for a living or as a hobby.
¦ noun a piece of writing or a picture produced carelessly or hurriedly.
Derivatives
scribbler noun
scribbly adjective
Origin
ME: from med. L. scribillare, dimin. of L. scribere 'write'.
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scribble2
¦ verb [often as noun scribbling] card (wool, cotton, etc.) coarsely.
Origin
C17: prob. from Low Ger.; cf. Ger. schrubbeln (in the same sense), from Low Ger. schrubben 'to scrub'.
scribble         
v. n.
Scrawl, scrabble, scratch.
scribble         
To modify a data structure in a random and unintentionally destructive way. "Bletch! Somebody's 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]

Wikipedia

Doodle

A doodle is a drawing made while a person's attention is otherwise occupied. Doodles are simple drawings that can have concrete representational meaning or may just be composed of random and abstract lines or shapes, generally without ever lifting the drawing device from the paper, in which case it is usually called a scribble.

Doodling and scribbling are most often associated with young children and toddlers, because their lack of hand–eye coordination and lower mental development often make it very difficult for any young child to keep their coloring attempts within the line art of the subject. Despite this, it is not uncommon to see such behavior with adults, in which case it is generally done jovially, out of boredom. Typical examples of doodling are found in school notebooks, often in the margins, drawn by students daydreaming or losing interest during class. Other common examples of doodling are produced during long telephone conversations if a pen and paper are available.

Popular kinds of doodles include cartoon versions of teachers or companions in a school, famous TV or comic characters, invented fictional beings, landscapes, geometric shapes, patterns, textures, or phallic scenes. Most people who doodle often remake the same shape or type of doodle throughout their lifetime.

Examples of use of scribble
1. But critics said the new design looked like a child‘s scribble.
2. Elizabeth‘s baby scribble was woven throughout all of the other names.
3. Vapour trails scribble across the sky, converging into man–made clouds that blur the sun.
4. Flustered, I scribble nonsensical symbols, which I immediately erase in a vain attempt to baffle.
5. The second a stumbling and barely legible scribble was that scrawled after torture.