different between hatching vs scribble

English

Noun

hatching (countable and uncountable, plural hatchings)

1. A method of shading areas of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines.
2. A group of birds, reptiles, fish, insects, etc., which emerge from their eggs at the same time.

   We got a good hatching from the swallowtail eggs.

3. The act of an egg hatching, eclosion

Translations

Verb

hatching

1. present participle of hatch

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sk??b?l/
• Rhymes: -?b?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English scribblen, scriblen, scryblen, scribelen, equivalent to scribe +? -le (frequentative suffix).

Verb

scribble (third-person singular simple present scribbles, present participle scribbling, simple past and past participle scribbled)

1. To write or draw carelessly and in a hurry
2. To doodle

Synonyms

• scrawl

Derived terms

• scribbler
• scribbleress

Related terms

• scribe

Translations

Noun

scribble (countable and uncountable, plural scribbles)

1. Careless, hasty writing, doodle or drawing

Translations

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Swedish skrubbla?”)

Verb

scribble (third-person singular simple present scribbles, present participle scribbling, simple past and past participle scribbled)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To card or tease (wool) coarsely; to run through a scribbler.

Further reading

• scribble in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• scribble in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• cribbles