scrawl : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: scrawl	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for scrawl
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scrawl n poor handwriting [syn: scribble, scratch, scrawl, cacography] v write carelessly Synonym(s): scribble, scrawl
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. His name, scrawled by himself. --Macaulay.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Scrawl \Scrawl\, v. i. See {Crawl}. [Obs.] --Latimer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Scrawl \Scrawl\ (skr[add]l), n. Unskillful or inelegant writing; that which is unskillfully or inelegantly written. The left hand will make such a scrawl, that it will not be legible. --Arbuthnot. You bid me write no more than a scrawl to you. --Gray.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Scrawl \Scrawl\, v. i. To write unskillfully and inelegantly. Though with a golden pen you scrawl. --Swift.