scribble

About 0.34 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To write or draw carelessly and in a hurry.

   I suddenly remembered I needed to buy bleach, so scribbled it down on my shopping list.

2. verb To doodle.
3. verb To write badly; to work as an inferior author or journalist.
4. noun Careless, hasty writing, doodle or drawing
5. verb To card or tease (wool) coarsely; to run through a scribbler.

Similar words

scrawl cacography scrabble scratch written freeform bescribble scrawl out scriggle doodle

Often followed by

a on in down and of notes the to

Word family

scribbled scribbles scribbling