Scribble vs. Scribe — What's the Difference?

To write (a note, for example) hurriedly without heed to legibility or style.

A scribe is a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of automatic printing.The profession of the scribe, previously widespread across cultures, lost most of its prominence and status with the advent of the printing press. The work of scribes can involve copying manuscripts and other texts as well as secretarial and administrative duties such as the taking of dictation and keeping of business, judicial, and historical records for kings, nobles, temples, and cities.

To draw (a picture) hurriedly or carelessly.

A public clerk or secretary, especially in ancient times.

To write in a hurried careless way.

A professional copyist of manuscripts and documents.

To make meaningless marks, as with a pen or pencil.

A writer or journalist.

Careless hurried writing.

See scriber.

Meaningless marks and lines.

To mark with a scriber.

(ambitransitive) To write or draw carelessly and in a hurry.

To write or inscribe.

To doodle.

To work as a scribe.

To write badly; to work as an inferior author or journalist.

Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist.

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

A person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession.^W

Careless, hasty writing, doodle or drawing

(informal) A journalist.

To card coarsely; to run through the scribbling machine.

(archaic) A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.

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

A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber.

To fill or cover with careless or worthless writing.

To write.

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

To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.

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

To record, as a scribe.

Poor handwriting

To write or draw with a scribe.

An aimless drawing

(carpentry) To cut (something) in order to fit it closely to an irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a moulding, etc.

Write down quickly without much attention to detail

To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.

Write carelessly

One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an offical or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist.

A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.

To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.

To cut (anything) in such a way as to fit closely to a somewhat irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a molding, or the like; - so called because the workman marks, or scribes, with the compasses the line that he afterwards cuts.

To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.

To make a mark.

French playwright (1791-1861)

Informal terms for journalists

Someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts

A sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut

Score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking