much-scribbling

From much +‎ scribbling

much-scribbling (not comparable)

1. (derogatory, rare) Writing or drawing hastily and carelessly; producing written material of poor quality or little substance.

   Hypernym: multo-scribbling

   • 1884, Felis, Jacob, Shakspere and Montaigne: an endeavour to explain the tendency of 'Hamlet' from allusions in contemporary works‎^[1], page 117:

     Shakspere's friends understood the allusion contained in the first act, after the apparition of the Ghost, when Hamlet calls for his 'tablets.' They knew that the much-scribbling Montaigne was meant, who, as he avows, had so bad a memory that he could not receive any commission without writing it down in his 'tablets' (tablettes).

   • 1889, Saltus, Edgar, A Transaction in Hearts An Episode‎^[2], page 251:

     The list of these […] included all the unknown names of the first half of our present and much-scribbling century,—statesmen, politicians, divines, historians, critics, novelists, and poets who had been, were, or were to be famous. […] It was one of the many weaknesses of Poe […] to dispraise most of our high-minded and stout-hearted men and women of letters.

   • 1898, Fisher, H. A. L., The medieval empire‎^[3], page 93:

     Or else she will turn to literary work, like the much-scribbling and intolerable Hrothsuitha of Gandersheim. The literary and religious impulse then spreads to the men.

   • 1919, More, Paul Elmer, With the wits: Shelburne essays, tenth series‎^[4], page 256:

     After all, Mason, the much-scribbling, vain, place-seeking, simple ‘‘Scroddles,” as his friend called him, hit somehow on the right idea of biography, as did another foolish sycophant of the age […]