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SCRIBACIOUS [scrib-AY-shuss] (adjective)
Fond of writing
"Heraud is a loquacious
scribacious little man, of middle age, of parboiled greasy aspect, whom Leigh Hunt describes as ‘wavering in the most astonishing manner between being Something and Nothing."
--Thomas Carlyle,
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson (1899)
TWITO, page 133
Published on July 26, 2020 17:41