Definitions
Messy or careless handwriting.
Word origin
Possibly from Middle English scraulen (“to spread out one's limbs; sprawl”), itself an alteration of spraulen (“to sprawl”) or craulen, crawlen (“to crawl”).
Used in a sentence
“She scrawled the main points onto her notepad.”
“c. 1710-1730, Jonathan Swift (probably), Sandys's Ghost Though with a golden pen you scrawl.”
“we will scrape and scrawl, and catch and pull to us all that we may get”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Messy penmanship”6 letters
02“Messy handwriting”6 letters
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