Meaning & use
scribbler
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A person who writes carelessly or hastily, or, informally and often self-deprecatingly, any writer.
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The old notebook was full of a scribbler's hurried, illegible notes.
He called himself 'just a scribbler,' though he'd published three novels.
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Often used humorously or self-effacingly by writers referring to their own work.
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