Other forms: scribbles
A scribble is careless writing that is hard to read. An illegible scribble.
It is also what a child does before letters, which is a real stage in learning to write. To scribble something down is fast and honest rather than careless.
1nounscribbleCareless writing that is hard to read.
“The note was a scribble on the back of a receipt.”
scribble is writing.
Medieval Latin scribillare is a diminutive of Latin scribere, to write.
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)kreybʰ-
Latin
scrībillō
Middle English
scriblen
English, today
scribble
Built from
From Middle English scriblen, from (1) scrīben + -le and/or (2) Latin scrībillō (found in conscrībillō), from cōnscrībō, from scrībō (“write”), equivalent to scribe + -le.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA