Word Meanings - SCRIBBLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who scribles; a literary hack. The scribbler, pinched with hunger, writes to dine. Granville.

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• PINCHBECK
  An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold; a yellow metal, composed of about three ounces of zinc to a pound of copper. It is much used as an imitation of gold in the manufacture of cheap jewelry.
• HUNGERER
  One who hungers; one who longs. Lamb.
• PINCHFIST
  A closefisted person; a miser.
• PINCHER
  One who, or that which, pinches.
• HUNGER
  & OHG. hungar, G. hunger, Icel. hungr, Sw. & Dan. hunger, Goth. h 1. An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food. Note: The sensation of hunger is usually referred to the stomach, but is probably
• HUNGER-BIT; HUNGER-BITTEN
  Pinched or weakened by hunger. Milton.
• PINCHING
  Compressing; nipping; griping; niggardly; as, pinching cold; a pinching parsimony. Pinching bar, a pinch bar. See Pinch, n., 4. -- Pinching nut, a check nut. See under Check, n.
• PINCHPENNY
  A miserly person.
• PINCH
  1. To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies. 2. o seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals. He pinched and
• PINCHCOCK
  A clamp on a flexible pipe to regulate the flow of a fluid through the pipe.
• HUNGERED
  Hungry; pinched for food. Milton.
• PINCHEM
  The European blue titmouse.
• HUNGERLY
  Wanting food; starved. Shak.
• HUNGER-STARVE
  To starve with hunger; to famish. Shak.
• LITERARY
  1. Of or pertaining to letters or literature; pertaining to learning or learned men; as, literary fame; a literary history; literary conversation. He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit. Johnson.
• PINCHINGLY
  In a pinching way.
• PINCHERS
  An instrument having two handles and two grasping jaws working on a pivot; -- used for griping things to be held fast, drawing nails, etc. Note: This spelling is preferable to pincers, both on account of its derivation from the English pinch, and
• SCRIBBLER
  One who scribles; a literary hack. The scribbler, pinched with hunger, writes to dine. Granville.
• BEPINCH
  To pinch, or mark with pinches. Chapman.
• ANHUNGERED
  Ahungered; longing.
• TRANSCRIBBLER
  A transcriber; -- used in contempt. He has suffered vastly from the transcribblers, as all authors of great brevity necessarily must. Gray.
• ENHUNGER
  To make hungry. Those animal passions which vice had . . . enhungered to feed on innocence and life. J. Martineau.
• AHUNGERED
  Pinched with hunger; very hungry. C. Bronté.
• BELLY-PINCHED
  Pinched with hunger; starved. "The belly-pinched wolf." Shak.