scribbler

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scrib·bler /ˈskrɪbələ $ -ər/ noun [countable] informal  ALa writer, especially an unimportant one 〔尤指不重要的〕作家；蹩脚文人

Examples from the Corpus

scribbler• That Getsl Slatkis is a scribbler who has climbed on to the revolutionary bandwagon.• But scribblers like me and Rob on the page before this?• Clothiers, fullers, scribblers and weavers abounded.• Political scribblers were usually better value than politicians, most of them being irreverent and much better informed.• One part of me was contemptuous of the scribblers continually rescuing the world with their paper prescriptions.• No wonder the scribblers on the hustings have so much stale garbage blowing around their brains.• At least one contemporary reviewer got the feeling that the various scribblers were being praised more for their passports than their prose.• That's the way with scribblers, they are for ever borrowing other people's quotations.

scrib·bler nounChineseSyllable  

an unimportant writer, Corpus one especially a

scribbler
scrib‧bler /ˈskrɪbələ $ -ər/ noun [countable] informal
a writer, especially an unimportant one

scrib·blerBrE /ˈskrɪblə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈskrɪblər/ 🔊 noun(disapproving or humorous) a journalist, author or other writer 耍笔杆子的(CanE) a book with plain paper for writing in, especially for children at school （尤指供在校儿童用的）练习本，习字本