scribbler n O Sup2 ~ 2 (1906- ) N. Amer. Also attrib ~ paper.
1915 Deep Sea Fishers xiii, p. 123 The children preferred sitting on the floor, and using [the benches] as desks, when they had work to do in their scribblers. T 284-66 She said, 'He got more education than teacher got.' [She] said, 'And he put one down,' she says, 'on the scribbler,' [she] said, 'for the teacher.' 1984 GOUGH 37 In pencil [he] begins to write the bill on to the scribbler paper bill of sale...one pound of salt beef, and licks the pencil tip. 1987 Evening Telegram 12 May, p. 3A After a nod from the boy as he was finished, [he] took out a dog-eared scribbler, and with the stump of a pencil...began to figure it up.
