scribbler
7.8
A person whose handwriting is messy and hard to read
- noun
- /ˈskrɪbələr/
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garabateador
- I filled up a scribbler with quotes from Mencken and later added notes from spoofers or self-spoolers like W. C. Fields, Charlie Chaplin, Mae West, Huey Long, and Senator Dirksen.
Examples
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As a child, he was known as a scribbler because he could never write neatly in his school assignments.
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What kind of scribbler are you?
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His handwriting is so messy that he is often called a scribbler by his teachers.
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The notes in her notebook looked like those of a true scribbler, with letters barely legible and thoughts jumbled.
Synonyms
scrawler
vsscribbler
9.3
A person whose handwriting is messy and hard to read
focuses on careless or illegible handwriting rather than general writing errors
9.9
A person who writes badly with poor spelling or messy handwriting
refers specifically to careless or unreadable handwriting not language mistakes
How Neat
Surface Forms
scribbler singular
scribblers plural
Morphology
Etymology
Scribbler comes from the word scribble, which means 'to write quickly or carelessly' and comes from Latin scribere 'to write'. So a scribbler can mean someone whose handwriting is messy or 'hard to read'.