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Definition of "scribbling" [scrib•bling]

  • That which has been scribbled, written in a scrawled or careless hand. (noun)
  • Present participle of scribble. (verb)

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Use "scribbling" in a sentence
  • "January 28th, 2010 at 3: 55 pm belaccifer lacca says: jwest - some napkin scribbling says that your 500 new nuclear reactors will run about 7 billion each."
  • "What I had seen in her notebook—slashes, dashes, and tiny loops all cramped together—looked like gibberish, but since she called her scribbling “medical theories,” I thought possibly she could be right: it could be a kind of formula."
  • "Perhaps 90 percent of the scribbling is the work of "taggers," or kids who mark their initials as a form of youthful rebellion."