scribbleable

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English

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Etymology

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scribble +‎ -able

Adjective

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scribbleable (comparative more scribbleable, superlative most scribbleable)

  1. Suitable for scribbling upon.
    • 1878, William Dean Howells, Italian Journeys, page 83:
      But I believe most travellers have much nobler sensations in Virgil's tomb, and there is a great deal of testimony borne to their lofty sentiments on every scribbleable inch of its walls.
    • 2010, Anne Finger, Call Me Ahab, page 191:
      He [] commenced to scribble on any scribbleable surface that could be found, no mean task aboard a whaler, which is not fitted out in any wise for penmen or for scholars.
    • 2024, David Goodwin, Servo: Tales from the Graveyard Shift:
      Scrawled over every scribbleable surface, they are tattoos in time; the result of fresh-risen panic as the console operator failed to find paper quick enough to scribble the numberplate of a car []