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multo-scribbling

multo-scribbling adjective: that writes a great deal.

Adjective

multo-scribbling (not comparable)

  1. (derogatory, obsolete, rare) That writes a great deal.
    • Thus spoke the Demon (late call'd "multifaced" / By multo-scribbling Southey).1822 October 15, Quevedo Redivivus [pseudonym; Lord Byron], “The Vision of Judgment”, in The Liberal. Verse and Prose from the South, 2nd edition, volume I, number I, London: […] John Hunt, […]...
    • Joseph Wolff (1795-1862): One of his letters. — Anything that relates to this eccentric and "multo-scribbling" man is interesting. I have a letter addressed by him to Mr. Hackman from Isle Brewers, Somerset, June 25, 1857 ..."1848, Notes and Queries, Oxford University Press, page 288

Origin of multo-scribbling

From Latin multus (“much”) + English -o- + scribbling. The earliest recorded usage appears in the writings of poet Lord Byron in the 1820s.

Questions about multo-scribbling

What does multo-scribbling mean?
Multo-scribbling means that writes a great deal.
What part of speech is multo-scribbling?
Multo-scribbling is an adjective.

Words near multo-scribbling in the dictionary

  1. multizone
  2. multizygotic
  3. Multnomah
  4. Multnomah County
  5. Multnomahs
  6. multo-scribbling
  7. multocular
  8. Multon
  9. Multons
  10. multum
  11. multum in parvo

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