scrawl

Etymology 1
Possibly from, itself an alteration of or ,.

Alternatively, from, a contraction of.

Noun

 * 1) Irregular, possibly illegible handwriting.
 * 2) A hastily or carelessly written note etc.
 * 3) Writing that lacks literary merit.
 * 4)  A broken branch of a tree.
 * 5)  The young of the dog-crab.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: драсканица
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, (variants: )
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: skribaĉo
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic: krot,, pírumpár
 * Italian:, girigogolo, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Polish:, , , gryzmoły
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian: карлючки, нерозбірливий почерк


 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: skribaĉo
 * Finnish:, raapustus, riipustus
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:

Verb

 * 1)  To write something hastily or illegibly.
 * 2)  To write in an irregular or illegible manner.
 * 3)  To write unskilfully and inelegantly.
 * 4) * c. 1710-1730, (probably), Sandys's Ghost
 * "en"
 * "en"

- Though with a golden pen you scrawl.

Derived terms

 * scrawl out

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Esperanto: skribaĉi
 * Finnish: raapustaa, riipustaa
 * German:, , dahin schmieren
 * Icelandic: krota, krassa, hripa, pára, skrifa flausturslega
 * Ido:
 * Italian: scarabocchiare
 * Polish: gryzmolić, nagryzmolić,, nabazgrać
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian: шкрябати,


 * Armenian:
 * Esperanto: skribaĉi
 * Finnish: raapustaa, riipustaa
 * French:
 * German:
 * Ido:
 * Italian: scarabocchiare
 * Polish:, gryzmolić, , nagryzmolić
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian: шкрябати,

Etymology 2
From, itself an alteration of. More at.

Verb

 * 1) To creep; crawl; to move slowly, with difficulty, fearfully, or stealthily.
 * 2) * November 9, 1550,, A Sermon preached at Stamford:
 * we will scrape and scrawl, and catch and pull to us all that we may get
 * 1) * 1797 (original possibly 1783), Josiah Relph, Poems by the Reverend Josiah Relph ... With the life of the author and a pastoral elegy on his death; by T. Sanderson, page 13:
 * When I saw him scrawlen on the plain, My heart aw flacker'd for't, I was sae fain.
 * 1) * 1892, Clarke Tum Fowt Sketches, page 40, no. 3:
 * T'poor pig what had just scrawled through t'bottom o' t'cart,