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scrawl

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
scrawl/skrɔːl/

▶verb write in a hurried, careless way. ▶noun an example of hurried, careless writing.

– derivatives
scrawly adjective.

– origin C17: appar. an alt. of crawl, perh. influenced by obs. scrawl ‘sprawl’.

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