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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. poor handwriting;
[syn: scribble, scratch, scrawl, cacography]


VERB (1)

1. write carelessly;
[syn: scribble, scrawl]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Scrawl \Scrawl\ (skr[add]l), 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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Scrawl \Scrawl\, v. i. See Crawl. [Obs.] --Latimer. [1913 Webster]
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]
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

scrawl n 1: poor handwriting [syn: scribble, scratch, scrawl, cacography] v 1: write carelessly [syn: scribble, scrawl]
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