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(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 2:55:08

Scrawl (?), v. i.

See Crawl.

[Obs.]

Latimer.

 

© Webster 1913.


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.

His name, scrawled by himself. Macaulay.

 

© Webster 1913.


Scrawl, v. i.

To write unskillfully and inelegantly.

Though with a golden pen you scrawl. Swift.

 

© Webster 1913.


Scrawl (?), n.

Unskillful or inelegant writing; that which is unskillfully or inelegantly written.

The left will make such a scrawl, that it will not be legible. Arbuthnot.

You bid me write no more than a scrawl to you. Gray.

 

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