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scrawls

scrawls is the plural of scrawl.

scrawls is the third-person singular simple present indicative of scrawl.

Meaning of scrawl

Noun

scrawl (countable and uncountable, plural scrawls)

  1. Irregular, poor handwriting; especially, such writing that is illegible.
    Synonyms:
    chicken scratch
  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.

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Phrases with scrawls

Questions about scrawls

What is scrawls the plural of?
Scrawls is the plural of scrawl.

Words near scrawls in the dictionary

  1. scrawling off
  2. scrawling out
  3. scrawling up
  4. scrawlingly
  5. scrawlings
  6. scrawls
  7. scrawls down
  8. scrawls off
  9. scrawls out
  10. scrawls up
  11. scrawly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scrawls (page history and authors); scrawl (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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