Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Scribble

Scribble , transitive verb

[Compare Scrabble.]

(Woolen Manufacturing) To card coarsely; to run through the scribbling machine.

Scribble (-b'ld) , transitive verb

[From Scribe.]

1.
To write hastily or carelessly, without regard to correctness or elegance; as, to scribble a letter.
2.
To fill or cover with careless or worthless writing.

Scribble , intransitive verb

To write without care, elegance, or value; to scrawl.
If Maevius scribble in Apollo's spite. — Pope

Scribble , noun

Hasty or careless writing; a writing of little value; a scrawl; as, a hasty scribble. — Boyle
Neither did I but vacant seasons spend In this my scribble. — Bunyan