multo-scribbling en · ADJ
Etymology
From Latin multus (“much”) + English -o- + scribbling. The earliest recorded usage appears in the writings of poet Lord Byron in the 1820s.
Meanings
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(derogatory, not-comparable, obsolete, rare) That writes a great deal.
Joseph Wolff (1795-1862): One of his letters. — Anything that relates to this eccentric and "multo-scribbling" man is interesting. I have a letter addressed by him to Mr. Hackman from Isle Brewers, Somerset, June 25, 1857 ..."
1848, Notes and Queries, Oxford University Press, page 288:Thus spoke the Demon (late call'd "multifaced" / By multo-scribbling Southey).
1822 October 15, Quevedo Redivivus [pseudonym; Lord Byron], “The Vision of Judgment”, in The Liberal. Verse and Prose from the South, 2nd edition, volume I, number I, London: […] John Hunt, […], published 1823, →OCLC, stanza LXV, page 25:Indeed, few more wholesome exercises could be desired for the multo-scribbling novelist of to-day than the study of the Characters of Overbury and Earle, who use the labour of the file on every line and make every sentence an apothegm.
1889, Moore, A. Percival, B.A., “Characters and Character Drawing”, in Transactions of the Leicester Literary & Philosophical Society, Vol II, Part 1, page 7: