scribble
Other forms: scribbled; scribbling; scribbles
To scribble is to write something quickly and sloppily. You can also call someone's handwriting, if it's hard to read, a scribble.
Have you ever made a note of something very quickly, and then later when you tried to read it, you couldn't? That's a scribble. People scribble when they need to write fast. The problem with scribbling—-making a scribble-—is that it’s hard to read. Some people have handwriting that is always hard to read: you can call poor handwriting a scribble. Doctors are famous for their scribbles. The Latin root is scribere, "to write."
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write down quickly without much attention to detail
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write carelessly
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poor handwritingsynonyms: cacography, scratch, scrawl
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an aimless drawing
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Learn these words derives from the Latin verb scribere, meaning "write."
Prepare for the TOEFL Exam by learning these words that contain the Latin root scrib ("write") and the Greek roots graph ("write/writing") and gram ("written thing").