scribble

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
scribble1

▶verb

• 1 write or draw carelessly or hurriedly.

• 2 informal write for a living or as a hobby.

▶noun a piece of writing or a picture produced carelessly or hurriedly.

– derivatives
scribbler noun,
scribbly adjective.

– origin ME: from med. L. scribillare, dimin. of L. scribere ‘write’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
scribble2

▶verb (often as noun scribbling) card (wool, cotton, etc.) coarsely.

– origin C17: prob. from Low Ger.; cf. Ger. schrubbeln (in the same sense), from Low Ger. schrubben ‘to scrub’.