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Definition of scrawl noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

scrawl

noun
 
/skrɔːl/
 
/skrɔːl/
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  1. a careless untidy way of writing; something written in this way synonym scribble
    • Her signature was an illegible scrawl.
    • I can't be expected to read this scrawl!
    • The paper was covered in scrawls.
    Word Originearly 17th cent.: apparently an alteration of the verb crawl, perhaps influenced by obsolete scrawl ‘sprawl’.
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