Scribble

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late Middle English: from medieval Latin scribillare, diminutive of Latin scribere ‘write’.


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From Middle English scribblen, scriblen, scryblen, scribelen, equivalent to scribe +‎ -le(frequentative suffix).

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Swedish skrubbla?”)


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scribble (v.)

mid-15c., from Medieval Latin scribillare, diminutive of Latin scribere "to write" (from PIE root *skribh- "to cut"). Related: Scribbled; scribbling. The noun, "hurried or careless writing," is 1570s, from the verb.