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Scribble vs. Scrabble

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Scribbleverb

To write or draw carelessly and in a hurry

Scrabbleverb

(intransitive) To scrape or scratch powerfully with hands or claws.

Scribbleverb

To doodle

Scrabbleverb

(transitive) To gather hastily.

Scribbleverb

To card or tease (wool) coarsely; to run through a scribbler.

Scrabbleverb

(intransitive) To move with difficulty by making rapid movements back and forth with the hands or paws.

‘She was on her hands and knees scrabbling in the mud, looking for her missing wedding ring.’;

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Scribblenoun

Careless, hasty writing, doodle or drawing

Scrabbleverb

(intransitive) To scribble.

Scribbleverb

To card coarsely; to run through the scribbling machine.

Scrabbleverb

(transitive) To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble on.

‘to scrabble paper’;

Scribbleverb

To write hastily or carelessly, without regard to correctness or elegance; as, to scribble a letter.

Scrabblenoun

A scramble.

‘a scrabble for dear life’;

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Scribbleverb

To fill or cover with careless or worthless writing.

Scrabbleverb

To scrape, paw, or scratch with the hands; to proceed by clawing with the hands and feet; to scramble; as, to scrabble up a cliff or a tree.

‘Now after a while Little-faith came to himself, and getting up made shift to scrabble on his way.’;

Scribbleverb

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

‘If Mævius scribble in Apollo's spite.’;

Scrabbleverb

To make irregular, crooked, or unmeaning marks; to scribble; to scrawl.

‘David . . . scrabbled on the doors of the gate.’;

Scribblenoun

Hasty or careless writing; a writing of little value; a scrawl; as, a hasty scribble.

‘Neither did I but vacant seasons spendIn this my scribble.’;

Scrabbleverb

To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble; as, to scrabble paper.

Scribblenoun

poor handwriting

Scrabblenoun

The act of scrabbling; a moving upon the hands and knees; a scramble; also, a scribble.

Scribblenoun

an aimless drawing

Scrabblenoun

an aimless drawing

Scribbleverb

write down quickly without much attention to detail

Scrabblenoun

a board game in which words are formed from letters in patterns similar to a crossword puzzle; each letter has a value and those values are used to score the game

Scribbleverb

write carelessly

Scrabbleverb

feel searchingly;

‘She groped for his keys in the dark’;

Scrabbleverb

write down quickly without much attention to detail

Scrabble

Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a game board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that, in crossword fashion, read left to right in rows or downward in columns, and be included in a standard dictionary or lexicon.

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