scrawl

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /skɹɔːl/|/skɹoːl/    美 /skɹoːl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Irregular, poor handwriting; especially, such writing that is illegible. countable,uncountable
  2. A hastily or carelessly written note etc. countable,uncountable
  3. Writing that lacks literary merit. countable,uncountable
  4. A broken branch of a tree. countable,uncommon
  5. The young of the dog-crab. countable,uncommon,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To write something hastily or illegibly. transitive
    — She scrawled the main points onto her notepad.
  2. To creep; crawl; to move slowly, with difficulty, fearfully, or stealthily.
    — we will scrape and scrawl, and catch and pull to us all that we may get
  3. To write in an irregular or illegible manner. intransitive
  4. To write unskilfully and inelegantly. intransitive
    — c. 1710-1730, Jonathan Swift (probably), Sandys's Ghost Though with a golden pen you scrawl.

词形变化

scrawls plural scrawls present,singular,third-person scrawling participle,present scrawled participle,past scrawled past scrawls present,singular,third-person scrawling participle,present scrawled participle,past scrawled past

词汇关系

衍生词
scrawl down scrawl off scrawl out scrawl up

词源

词源 1
Possibly from Middle English scraulen (“to spread out one's limbs; sprawl”), itself an alteration of spraulen (“to sprawl”) or craulen, crawlen (“to crawl”).
Alternatively, from scrall, a contraction of scrabble.
词源 2
From Middle English scraulen (“to crawl”), itself an alteration of crawlen (“to crawl”). More at crawl.
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