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Meanings of scrawl (scrawling) in English

Portuguese
cacografia
Catalan
escarabat
Spanish
garabato

Poor handwriting.

cacografia

An irregular and illegible handwriting.

Synonyms
Examples for "chicken scratch"
Examples for "chicken scratch"
1
It even works with handwritten notes, turning your chicken scratch into searchable text.
Reuters
2
I held my chicken scratch handwriting up for her to read.
Beautiful creatures
3
Pete Kasab consulted his two-by-four notebook, jotting down more chicken scratch.
A necessary evil
4
I don't know why people like my chicken scratch.
Reuters
5
It had taken three years of shared residency for me to decipher the chicken scratch he called writing.
Nocturnal
Usage of scrawling in English
1
Ned took the paper, on which was written in a scrawling hand:
Through the Fray: A Tale of the Luddite Riots
2
The title was in a scrawling, strange script that she didn't recognize.
The Assassin’s Blade
3
She opened the letter-justa few words in a scrawling hand:
Lonesome dove
4
He kept notes, scrawling impenetrable messages to himself on ragged ends of paper.
Perdido Street Station
5
I picture her scrawling out a note to Dear Abby on linen-blend stationery.
My Sister's Keeper
6
In a magazine review his work was calledthe mindless scrawling of a Neanderthal.
The new yorker
7
And now instead I am scrawling this nonsense in a tavern after lunch.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
8
My grandmother had put it there in a painful, scrawling hand.
Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
9
Staring at the scrawling lines made me more fatigued than I already was.
The Angel Stone
10
How useful was scrawling a preposition on a slanted line, anyway?
Wired
11
The remainder confined themselves absolutely to business, scrawling postal-cards or reading their mail.
Judith of the Plains
12
Hastily scrawling her name, Joyce ran out into the hall with her letter.
The Gate of the Giant Scissors
13
What on earth were those nitwits trying to prove, scrawling on the walls?
Dark rivers of the heart
14
Three scrawling lines of runes had been scratched into the wax.
Celtic fire
15
Tapes are piled high in a corner, labeled in scrawling Arabic.
Reuters
16
She jumped, scrawling a line of ink down the center of the page.
Heir of Fire
About this term
Translations for scrawling
Portuguese
cacografia
Scrawling through the time
Scrawling across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common