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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

much scribbling en · ADJ

Etymology

From much + scribbling

Meanings

  1. (derogatory, not-comparable, rare) Writing or drawing hastily and carelessly; producing written material of poor quality or little substance.
    • I became his zealous partisan, and contributed all I could to raise a party in his favor, and we combated for him a while with some hopes of success. There was much scribbling pro and con upon the occasion; and finding that, tho’ an elegant preacher, he was but a poor writer, I lent him my pen and wrote for him two or three pamphlets ... 1700s, Franklin, Benjamin, The Life of Benjamin Franklin Written by Himself., page 295:
    • ... amid much scribbling is a worn late 14th cent. Latin note on the old nunnery of Coventry 'quod J.R. ... 1922, Falconer Madan and H.H.E. Craster, A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, which Have Not Hitherto Been Catalogued in the Quarto Series, page 254:

Synonyms

multo-scribbling