English-Thai Dictionary

scrawl

VI เขียน หวัดๆ  kian-wad-wad

 

scrawl

VT เขียน หวัดๆ  kian-wad-wad

 

scrawler

N ผู้เขียน หวัดๆ  phu-kian-wad-wad

 

scrawly

ADV แบบ หวัดๆ  อย่าง สะเพร่า  beab-wad-wad

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SCRAWL

v.t. 1. To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly.
2. To write awkwardly.

 

SCRAWL

v.i. 1. To write unskillfully and inelegantly.
Though with a golden pen you scrawl.
2. To creep; to crawl. [This is from crawl, but I know not that it is in use. ]

 

SCRAWL

n. 1. Unskillful or inelegant writing; or a piece of hasty bad writing.
2. In New England, a ragged, broken branch of a tree, or other brush wood.

 

SCRAWLER

n.One who scrawls; a hasty or awkward writer.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SCRAWL

SCRAWL Scrawl, v. i.

 

Defn: See Crawl. [Obs. ] Latimer.

 

SCRAWL

Scrawl, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scrawled; p. pr. & vb. n. Scrawling.]Etym: [Probably corrupted from scrabble. ]

 

Defn: 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.

 

SCRAWL

SCRAWL Scrawl, v. i.

 

Defn: To write unskillfully and inelegantly. Though with a golden pen you scrawl. Swift.

 

SCRAWL

SCRAWL Scrawl, n.

 

Defn: 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.

 

SCRAWLER

SCRAWLER Scrawl "er, n.

 

Defn: One who scrawls; a hasty, awkward writer.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

scrawl

scrawl |skrôl skrɔl | ▶verb [ with obj. ] write (something ) in a hurried, careless way: Charlie scrawled his signature | [ no obj. ] : he was scrawling on the back of a used envelope. ▶noun an example of hurried, careless writing: the page was covered in scrawls and doodles | reams of handwritten scrawl. • a note or message written in this way: Duncan read the scrawl, then passed it to her. DERIVATIVES scrawl er noun, scrawl y adjective ORIGIN early 17th cent.: apparently an alteration of the verb crawl, perhaps influenced by obsolete scrawl ‘sprawl. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

scrawl

scrawl |skrɔːl | ▶verb [ with obj. ] write (something ) in a hurried, careless way: Charlie scrawled his signature | [ no obj. ] : he was scrawling on the back of a used envelope. ▶noun an example of hurried, careless writing: the page was covered in scrawls and doodles | [ mass noun ] : reams and reams of handwritten scrawl. DERIVATIVES scrawly adjective ORIGIN early 17th cent.: apparently an alteration of the verb crawl, perhaps influenced by obsolete scrawl ‘sprawl ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

scrawl

scrawl verb he scrawled his name at the bottom of the page: scribble, write hurriedly, write untidily, dash off. ▶noun his writing was a scrawl: scribble, chicken scratch, squiggle (s ), hieroglyphics.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

scrawl

scrawl verb he scanned the page, then scrawled his name at the bottom: scribble, write hurriedly, write untidily, write illegibly, scratch, doodle, dash off, jot (down ).▶noun you might wonder how pharmacists decipher a doctor's scrawl: scribble, hurried handwriting, untidy handwriting, illegible handwriting, squiggle (s ); archaic cacography.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

scrawl

scrawl /skrɔːl /動詞 他動詞 …をなぐり [走り ]書きする ; ｟書 ｠〖直接話法 〗…となぐり書きする (→say 他動詞 1a ).自動詞 書きなぐる ; 落書きする .名詞 C 〖単数形で 〗なぐり書きされた字 [手紙 ], 走り書き ; 悪筆, 乱筆, 落書き .