scribbler
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scribbler (plural scribblers)
- One who scribbles; a hasty or untalented writer or artist.
- Synonyms: hack, ink-slinger, phrase-monger, scrawler, shmock
- 1726, George Granville, Epilogue to the Jew of Venice:
- The scribbler, pinch'd with hunger, writes to dine.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- "That's what I have been talking to you, sir - scientific gibberish! Did you think you could match cunning with me - you with your walnut of a brain? You think you are omnipotent, you infernal scribblers, don't you? That your praise can make a man and your blame can break him?"
- (dated) A machine for coarse carding or teasing of wool.
- (Canada) A ruled notebook or exercise book, especially in grade school.
- Synonyms: notebook, exercise book
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one who scribbles; hasty or untalented writer
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untalented artist
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machine for coarse carding or teasing of wool
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