scrawling

Verb (1)

scrawl (third-person singular simple present scrawls, present participle scrawling, simple past and past participle scrawled)

1. (transitive) To write something hastily or illegibly.
   • She scrawled the main points onto her notepad.
2. (intransitive) To write in an irregular or illegible manner.
3. (intransitive) To write unskilfully and inelegantly.
   • Though with a golden pen you scrawl.c. 1710-1730, Jonathan Swift (probably), Sandys's Ghost

Verb (2)

scrawl (third-person singular simple present scrawls, present participle scrawling, simple past and past participle scrawled)

1. To creep; crawl; to move slowly, with difficulty, fearfully, or stealthily.
   • we will scrape and scrawl, and catch and pull to us all that we may getNovember 9, 1550, Hugh Latimer, A Sermon preached at Stamford

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