scribbler

English

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

one who scribbles; hasty or untalented writer

Bulgarian: драскач m (draskač)
French: gribouilleur (fr) m, gribouilleuse (fr) f, plumitif (fr) m
German: Schreiberling (de) m, Kritzler m, Kritzlerin f, Schmierer m, Schmiererin f, Skribent m, Skribentin f, Skribler m, Skriblerin f, Skritzler m, Skritzlerin f, Schmock (de) m (obsolete, plurals: Schmöcke, Schmocke, Schmocks)
Ido: skribachanto, skribachero, autoracho
Irish: breacaire m, breacaire páipéir m
Italian: imbrattacarte m, gazzettiere m
Volapük: (♂♀) lulautan, (♂) hilulautan, (♀) jilulautan

untalented artist

machine for coarse carding or teasing of wool

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