Category:Scrawl

Scrawl, v. i.

Defn: see crawl. [obs.] Latimer.

Scrawl Scrawl, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scrawled; p. pr. & vb. n. Scrawling.] Etym: [probably corrupted from scrabble.]

Defn: to draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly; to write hastily and Carelessly; to scratch; to scribble; as, to scrawl a letter. His name, scrawled by himself. Macaulay.

Scrawl Scrawl, v. i.

Defn: to write unskillfully and inelegantly. Though with a golden pen you scrawl. Swift.

Scrawl Scrawl, n.

Defn: unskillful or inelegant writing; that which is unskillfully or Inelegantly written. The left will make such a scrawl, that it will not be legible. Arbuthnot. You bid me write no more than a scrawl to you. Gray.