Scribble vs Scrobble - What's the difference?
scribble | scrobble |
To write or draw carelessly and in a hurry
To doodle
(obsolete) To card or tease (wool) coarsely; to run through a scribbler.
(slang) To waylay, kidnap or steal.
* (John Masefield)
* Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere (page 73)
(internet slang) To publish one's music-listening habits to the Internet via software, in order to track when and how often certain songs are played.
As verbs the difference between scribble and scrobble
is that scribble is to write or draw carelessly and in a hurry while scrobble is (slang) to waylay, kidnap or steal or scrobble can be (internet slang) to publish one's music-listening habits to the internet via software, in order to track when and how often certain songs are played.As nouns the difference between scribble and scrobble
is that scribble is careless, hasty writing, doodle or drawing while scrobble is a datum or the aggregate data collected by this means.scribble
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(scribbl)Synonyms
* scrawlExternal links
* *scrobble
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Etymology 1
1927, in the book .Verb
- They've tried to scrobble another clergyman who was walking into Tatchester from Tineton.
- "We have no intention of violating their market truce. More of waiting till she has left the market and scrobbling her..."