[skrawl] 
| 1. | to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard. |
| 2. | to write awkwardly, carelessly, or illegibly. |
| 3. | awkward, careless, or illegible handwriting. |
| 4. | something scrawled, as a letter or a note. |
| scrawl (skrôl) v. scrawled, scrawl·ing, scrawls v. tr. To write hastily or illegibly. v. intr. To write in a sprawling, irregular manner. n.
[Perhaps from obsolete scrawl, to gesticulate, sprawl, from Middle English scrawlen, probably blend of sprawlen, to sprawl; see sprawl and craulen, to crawl; see crawl1.] scrawl'er n., scrawl'y adj. |
