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Meanings of chicken scratch in English

An irregular and illegible handwriting.

American Indigenous dance music.

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Usage of chicken scratch in English
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It even works with handwritten notes, turning your chicken scratch into searchable text.
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I held my chicken scratch handwriting up for her to read.
Beautiful creatures
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Pete Kasab consulted his two-by-four notebook, jotting down more chicken scratch.
A necessary evil
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I don't know why people like my chicken scratch.
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It had taken three years of shared residency for me to decipher the chicken scratch he called writing.
Nocturnal
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Bib had filled the page with chicken scratch that would make a doctor's prescription look like forty-eight-point block letters.
Deep black
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When he was done, his notepad looked like chicken scratch, but he was beginning to feel closer to the truth.
The cold room
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I saw that list of names and addresses written out in Uncle Bill's chicken scratch on lined sheets of Aunt Merilyn's stationery.
The well and the mine
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I use chicken scratch feed bags mostly as these are a nice size, and ties a string near the top of the bag.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at th...
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While Windows did a better job than I expected at converting my chicken scratch to text, it was still largely illegible on the whole.
Wired
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Chickens scratched around in the dirt between the huts, while dogs roamed free.
The Reality Dysfunction
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At one farm close by the road a lone chicken scratched in the yard.
To the blight: the eye of the world
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Sleds and ploughs rust together beside the house, and chickens scratch up the front-door yard.
Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness
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Emaciated chickens scratched around in the mud and sawdust.
The Reality Dysfunction
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The chickens scratch in the dust and hay.
Choke
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A white chicken scratched industriously at the ground as if to summon worms by sheer desire.
The Secret Eleanor