- 1. v. i. See Crawl. Source: opted
- 2. v. t. To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly; to write hastily and carelessly; to scratch; to scribble; as, to scrawl a letter. Source: opted
- 3. v. i. To write unskillfully and inelegantly. Source: opted
- 4. n. Unskillful or inelegant writing; that which is unskillfully or inelegantly written. Source: opted
- 5. n. poor handwriting Source: wordnet
- 6. v. write carelessly Source: wordnet
- 7. See Crawl. [Obs.] Latimer. 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. To write unskillfully and inelegantly. Though with a golden pen you scrawl. Swift. 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. Source: webster
- 8. See Crawl. [Obs.] Latimer. Source: adambom
- 9. n:22/v:78 n poor handwriting v write carelessly Source: ecdict
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