vbl. sb. [f. JOT v.2 + -ING1.] The action of JOT v.2; usually concr. Something jotted down; a brief hasty note or sketch.
1808–18. Jamieson, Jotting, a memorandum.
1814. Scott, Wav., lxxi. I’ll mak a slight jotting the morn.
1818. Todd, Jotting, a memorandum; as, cursory jottings. Of very recent usage. The Scotch also employ this word.
1823. Caledonian Mercury, 29 March, 3/1 (Jam.). (Here his Lordship read the judgment, and the paper called ‘JOTTINGS respecting John Dalgleish’s Settlement).’
1841. D’Israeli, Amen. Lit. (1867), 581. We have had perhaps too many of these jottings.
