bescribble
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]bescribble (third-person singular simple present bescribbles, present participle bescribbling, simple past and past participle bescribbled)
- To write in a messy, scribbly fashion.
- (transitive) To scribble over.
- 1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, book:
- bescribbled with a thousand trifling impertinences
References
[edit]- “bescribble”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.