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scrawl
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun scrawl has 1 sense
- scrawl(n = noun.communication) cacography, scratch, scribble - poor handwriting; Array is a kind of hand, handwriting, script
has particulars: chicken scratch, squiggle
Derived form verb scrawl1
Verb scrawl has 1 sense
- scrawl(v = verb.creation) scribble - write carelessly; Array is one way to write
Derived forms noun scrawl1, noun scrawler1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
scrawl, v. i.
See Crawl. Latimer. [1913 Webster]
scrawl, v. t. [Probably corrupted from scrabble.].
To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly; to write hastily and carelessly; to scratch; to scribble; as, to scrawl a letter. [1913 Webster]
"His name, scrawled by himself."
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scrawl, v. i.
To write unskillfully and inelegantly. [1913 Webster]
"Though with a golden pen you scrawl."
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scrawl, n.
Unskillful or inelegant writing; that which is unskillfully or inelegantly written. [1913 Webster]
"The left hand will make such a scrawl, that it will not be legible."
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"You bid me write no more than a scrawl to you."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
scrawl, v. & n.
--v.
1 tr. & intr. write in a hurried untidy way.
2 tr. (foll. by out) cross out by scrawling over.
--n.
1 a piece of hurried writing.
2 a scrawled note.
--v.
1 tr. & intr. write in a hurried untidy way.
2 tr. (foll. by out) cross out by scrawling over.
--n.
1 a piece of hurried writing.
2 a scrawled note.
Derivative
scrawly adj.
Etymology
perh. f. obs. scrawl sprawl, alt. of CRAWL
THESAURUS
scrawl
barbouillage, doodle, hen scratches, hen tracks, illegibility, indecipherability, inscribe, pattes de mouche, pothookery, pothooks, pothooks and hangers, scrabble, scratch, scribble, scribbling, squiggle, undecipherability, unreadabilityROGET THESAURUS
scrawl
Writing
VB write, pen, copy, engross, write out, write out fair, transcribe, scribble, scrawl, scrabble, scratch, interline, stain paper, write down, sign, enface, compose, indite, draw up, draft, formulate, dictate, inscribe, throw on paper, dash off, manifold, take up the pen, take pen in hand, shed ink, spill ink, dip one's pen in ink.
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