Scribble

scribble n.

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.

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.

Scrib"ble (?), v. t. [Cf. Scrabble.] Woolen Manuf.

To card coarsely; to run through the scribling machine.

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Scrib"ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scribbled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Scribling (?).] [From Scrible.]

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.

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Scrib"ble, v. i.

To write without care, elegance, or value; to scrawl.

If Maevius scribble in Apollo's spite. Pope.

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Scrib"ble, n.

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.

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