bescribble

English

Etymology

be- +‎ scribble

Verb

bescribble (third-person singular simple present bescribbles, present participle bescribbling, simple past and past participle bescribbled)

1. To write in a messy, scribbly fashion.
2. (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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bescribble”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)