scrabbled, ppl. a.
(ˈskræb(ə)ld)
[f. scrabble v. + -ed1.]
Inscribed with scrawling characters, written in a scrawling style.
| 1625 Jackson Orig. Unbelief xlvii. 425 [They] frame such compositions of sacred lines, as men in phrenzie..do out of scrabled walls or painted cloaths. 1857 H. Miller Sch. & Schm. vii. 141 The blank spaces were occupied with deplorably scrabbled couplets. 1880 Webb Goethe's Faust ii. iv. 101 A scrabbled parchment, signed and sealed. |