scrawl

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /skɹɔːl/

Noun

scrawl

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

Translations

• French: griffonnage, gribouillage
• German: Gekritzel
• Italian: scarabocchio, girigogolo, sgorbio, svolazzo
• Portuguese: garrancho, rabisco
• Russian: каракуля

Translations

• Italian: scarabocchio
• Portuguese: garrancho

Verb

scrawl (scrawls, present participle scrawling; past and past participle scrawled)

1. (transitive) To write something hastily or illegibly.
2. (intransitive) To write in an irregular or illegible manner.
3. (intransitive) To write unskilfully and inelegantly.
   • c. 1710-1730, Jonathan Swift (probably), Sandys's Ghost

     Though with a golden pen you scrawl.

Translations

• German: kritzeln, krakeln, dahin schmieren
• Italian: scarabocchiare
• Portuguese: rabiscar
• Russian: цара́пать
• Spanish: garrapatear

Translations

• French: griffonner
• German: kritzeln
• Italian: scarabocchiare
• Portuguese: rabiscar
• Russian: цара́пать
• Spanish: garrapatear

Verb

scrawl (scrawls, present participle scrawling; past and past participle scrawled)

1. To creep; crawl; (by extension) to swarm with crawling things

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