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)

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