'Scrawl' definitions:
Definition of 'Scrawl'
From: GCIDE
- Scrawl \Scrawl\, v. i. See Crawl. [Obs.] --Latimer. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Scrawl'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'Scrawl'
From: GCIDE
- Scrawl \Scrawl\, v. i. To write unskillfully and inelegantly. [1913 Webster]
- Though with a golden pen you scrawl. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Scrawl'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'scrawl'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- barbouillage,
- doodle,
- hen scratches,
- hen tracks,
- illegibility,
- indecipherability,
- inscribe,
- pattes de mouche,
- pothookery,
- pothooks,
- pothooks and hangers,
- scrabble,
- scratch,
- scribble,
- scribbling,
- squiggle,
- undecipherability,
- unreadability