Found 6 hits - Term: scrawl, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
scrawl \scrawl\, v. i.
see crawl. obs. --latimer.
1913 webster
see also:
crawl
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
scrawl \scrawl\, v. t. imp. p. p. scrawled; p. pr. vb. n.
scrawling. 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. --macaulay.
1913 webster
see also:
scrawled scrawling
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
scrawl \scrawl\, v. i.
to write unskillfully and inelegantly.
1913 webster
though with a golden pen you scrawl. --swift.
1913 webster
- [4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
scrawl \scrawl\ skraddl, 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. --arbuthnot.
1913 webster
you bid me write no more than a scrawl to you. --gray.
1913 webster
- [5] : WordNet (r) 2.0
scrawl
n : poor handwriting syn: scribble, scratch, cacography
v : write carelessly syn: scribble
see also:
scribble scratch cacography
- [6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
18 moby thesaurus words for "scrawl":
barbouillage, doodle, hen scratches, hen tracks, illegibility,
indecipherability, inscribe, pattes de mouche, pothookery,
pothooks, pothooks and hangers, scrabble, scratch, scribble,
scribbling, squiggle, undecipherability, unreadability
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