chicken scratch
Noun
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Noun
chicken scratch
- Chicken feed consisting of random mixed grains such as corn, wheat, barley, sorghum and milling by-products.
- 2008, Richard Dwight Apgar, Tough Shit, Eliot: A Yank's Tale, Dorrance Publishing (ISBN 9780805978483), page 1:
- A soft odor of chicken scratch, mash, and manure always permeated the air when you approached. Attached to the chicken coop was a smokehouse that contained several smoked ham shoulders hanging from hooks.
- 2008, Richard Dwight Apgar, Tough Shit, Eliot: A Yank's Tale, Dorrance Publishing (ISBN 9780805978483), page 1:
- (informal, idiom) Cramped or illegible handwriting.
- Synonyms: scrawl
- 2014, A. Meredith Walters, Light in the Shadows, Simon and Schuster (ISBN 9781476782300), page 25:
- The pencil in my hand was limp between my fingers and I couldn't focus on the chicken scratch on the pages. My breathing had become shallow and my heart was racing. I was in the midst of a full-blown panic attack.
- A type of cross-stitch embroidery done on gingham fabric.
- Synonyms: Amish embroidery
- French: pattes de mouche, griffonnage
- German: Krähenfüße (colloquial), Sauklaue (colloquial)
- Russian: кара́кули
- Spanish: garrapato, garambainas
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