Vocabulary_scrawl

scrawl

To scrawl is to write in a quick, barely readable scribble. When you're signing a document, you might scrawl your name across the bottom.

Doctors are well-known for the way they scrawl prescriptions on a pad, and you can refer to that chicken scratch handwriting itself as a scrawl. It's not easy to read someone's scrawl, which is careless and rushed. The origin of scrawl is (fittingly) unclear, although one guess connects it to the Middle English scrawlen, "spread out the limbs" or "sprawl."

Usage Examples

But instead, Coin personally hands me the supplies, and everyone waits in silence while I sit at the table and scrawl out my list.

And there it was, scrawled right across a long list of antidotes: Just shove a bezoar down their throats.

They wear lipstick, red, outlining the damp cavities of their mouths, like scrawls on a washroom wall, of the time before.

I was right, and in a moment I heard the slow scrawling of the pen on the death certificate.

潦草地书写，潦草地笔迹，潦草地文字，涂鸦；