noun. One who scribbles, especially an author regarded as very minor, untalented, or disreputable.

noun. One who scribbles or writes carelessly, loosely, or badly; hence, a petty author; a writer of no reputation.

noun. A machine used for scribbling cotton or woolen fiber.

noun. A person who tends such a machine and is said to scribble the fiber.

noun. One who scribbles; a petty author; a writer of no reputation; a literary hack.

noun. A scribbling machine.

noun. One who scribbles; a hasty or untalented writer or artist.

noun. A machine for coarse carding or teasing of wool.

noun. a writer whose handwriting is careless and hard to read

noun. informal terms for journalists

"David Aaronovitch criticises the "melange of questionable statistics, assertions dressed as facts and straightforward scapegoating cranked out by Migration Watch UK and its main scribbler, Anthony Browne", and attacks the 'lies, damned lies' of the anti-immigration lobby."

journalist  writer  

bumpkin  bungler  dauber  flatterer  fortune hunter  

amanuensis  calligrapher  chirographer  clerk  copier