scrawln.¹

Brit.

/skrɔːl/, U.S.

/skrɔl/,

/skrɑl/

Forms: 1700s scrall, skrawl, skrale, 1600s– scrawl.

Etymology: < scrawl v.²

a. Something scrawled; a hastily and badly written letter, a careless sketch.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] > hastily written letter

scribble1577

scrawl1665

scrib1795

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [noun] > a drawing > rough or preliminary > careless

scrawl1840

1665 R. Moray Let. 12 Nov. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1965) II. 606 I sent him a scrawle of a Map of the place with my letter, which hee it seemes hath not printed.

1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour v. i. 48 There, read. (Shows Letters.) That—That's a Scrawl of Quality.

1739 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. Jan. (1966) II. 134 I forget you are at Paris, and 'tis not polite to trouble you with such long scrawls as might perhaps be supportable at Monts.

1792 W. Scott Let. 10 Sept. (1932) I. 20 Taking the advantage..of my father's leaving this place, who will take charge of this scroll, I sit down to answer your favour.

1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. I. 107 A scrawl from his pencil brings an enormous price.

1882 B. D. W. Ramsay Recoll. Mil. Serv. I. xi. 286 An hour or two had not elapsed before I received a scrawl in Sir Colin's own handwriting.

†b. plural. Scrawled or illegible characters. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [noun] > bad handwriting > untidy or illegible

scribbling1536

scribble-scrabble1602

scrawling1612

scrawl1710

scrawls1728

hieroglyphic1742

scoteinography1779

scratch1785

pot-hookery1795

hen scrat1825

cryptogram1827

scribble1828

griffonage1832

hen-scratching1851

chicken scratches1863

hieroglyph1875

1728 Tickell Horn-bk. 34 So from the letters of our native tongue, Put in Greek scrawls, a mystery too is sprung.

1767 W. Harte Amaranth 96 In sable scrawls I Nero's name perus'd.

1808 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. ii, in Poems (ed. 3) 83 Mark now in what confusion, stoop or stand, The crooked Scrawls of many a clownish Hand.

2. A careless, illegible style of handwriting.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [noun] > bad handwriting > untidy or illegible

scribbling1536

scribble-scrabble1602

scrawling1612

scrawl1710

scrawls1728

hieroglyphic1742

scoteinography1779

scratch1785

pot-hookery1795

hen scrat1825

cryptogram1827

scribble1828

griffonage1832

hen-scratching1851

chicken scratches1863

hieroglyph1875

1710 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 3 Nov. (1948) I. 79 A bad scrawl is so snug.

1775 F. Burney Let. 13 Nov. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1990) II. 90 Her Hand writing..was..a miserable scrawl.

1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xv. 140 The scrawl of..childish hands.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

scrawln.²

Brit.

/skrɔːl/, U.S.

/skrɔl/,

/skrɑl/

Etymology: Perhaps < scrawl v.¹ But compare Old French escrouelle river-shrimp.

dialect.

(See quot. 1847.)

ΚΠ

1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Scrawl, the young of the dog-crab, or a poor sort of crab itself. Linc.

1861 Ld. Tennyson Sailor Boy 12 And on thy ribs the limpet sticks, And in thy heart the scrawl shall play.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

scrawlv.¹

Forms: Middle English, 1500s–1600s scrawle, Middle English–1500s scraule, 1500s scrale, skrall(e, skrawl, 1500s–1600s scraul, scrall, 1500s–1700s, 1800s (dialect) scrawl.

Etymology: Apparently an altered form of crawl v.¹, perhaps suggested by sprawl v. of cognate meaning.

Obsolete exc. dialect.

†1. intransitive. To spread the limbs abroad in a sprawling manner; to gesticulate. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of stretching body > stretch oneself or be stretched [verb (intransitive)] > in an awkward or ungainly manner

sprawlc1000

scrawlc1380

society > communication > indication > gesturing or gesture > make gestures [verb (intransitive)]

beckonc950

becka1300

wevec1325

playc1330

to make a countenancea1375

signc1520

token1535

gesture1542

starkle?1544

scrawl1582

gesticulate1609

annuate1623

to make a motion1719

wink1738

motion1788

c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. ccxxx, in Sel. Wks. II. 204 And þis spirit cryinge, made him scrawle [v.rr. spraule, scraule], or, al to-teerynge him, went oute from him.

1560 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Æneid ix. A a 2 As he there did pendant skralle; He pluckt him back by foarce.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 28 Hee freams, and skrawling to the skye brays terribil hoyseth.

2. To move with a scrambling and shuffling motion. = crawl v.¹ 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > progressive motion > moving along with hands and feet or with body prone > move along with hands and feet or with body prone [verb (intransitive)] > scramble

scrawl1530

sprawl1582

scramblea1586

scrabble1638

scrubblec1854

1530 Bible (Tyndale) Lev. xi. f. xix All that scrauleth apon the erth, is an abhominacyon.

1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 45^v If gentils be skrauling [1580 scrauling], call magget the pye.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xxiv. 845/1 Not so few as one hundred and twenty of knowne Iesuites and Seminaries scrawled like frogs, through her faire soile.

1677 E. Coles Dict. Eng.-Lat. To scrall (stir); motito.

1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth I. 127 He scrawling, she tugging, with hawling and lugging, Through Window at last he got in.

1851 Gloss. Provinc. Words Cumberland Scrawling.

1892 C. A. Clarke Tum Fowt Sketches 40 (E.D.D.) T' poor pig what had just scrawled through t' bottom o' t' cart.

†3. transferred. To teem. = crawl v.¹ 5. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > make abundant [verb (transitive)] > abound in or with > swarm with

wallc1000

to swarm in1482

wamble1485

scrawl1530

to swarm with1548

exceed1624

pullulate1641

sny1674

teem1710

spawn1818

1530 Bible (Tyndale) Exod. viii. f. xii^v And the ryuer shall scrale with frogges.

1643 J. Lightfoot Handfull Gleanings Exod. 14 The waters..scrawle with frogges.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

scrawlv.²

Brit.

/skrɔːl/, U.S.

/skrɔl/,

/skrɑl/

Forms: Also 1600s scraul, scrall.

Etymology: Perhaps a use of scrawl v.¹, the development of sense being suggested by the coincidence of the initial consonant-group with that of scrabble, scribble, scroll.

a. transitive. To write or draw in a sprawling, untidy manner.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > write in specific style [verb (transitive)] > illegibly or untidily

scribblec1456

bescribble1582

scrawl1612

scratch1806

scribble-scrabble1847

scrabble1856

squiggle1942

society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > represent graphically [verb (transitive)] > line or figure > in a sprawling untidy manner

scrawl1748

1612 [implied in: J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. xx. 230 Schollars now will be carefull to keepe their Greeke Testaments faire from blotting or scrauling. (at scrawling n.)].

?1635 F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia (new ed.) iii. 116 To whom poore Vulcan..Scrall'd many a thanke.

1748 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 26 July (1966) II. 407 I enclose to you a rough draght of it, drawn (or more properly, scrawl'd) by [my] own hand.

1781 W. Cowper Truth 156 Who, where'er he came, Scrawl'd upon glass miss Bridget's lovely name.

1879 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times II. xxvii. 304 The war correspondent now scrawls his despatches as he sits in his saddle under the fire of the enemy.

1887 A. Jessopp Arcady vii. 215 [The] accomplishment of scrawling their names at the bottom of a cheque.

b. To cover (a surface) with scrawling inscriptions or marks. Also with over.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > marking > mark [verb (transitive)] > cover with scrawling marks, inscriptions, etc.

scribble1540

scrawl1647

society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > write in specific style [verb (transitive)] > illegibly or untidily > cover with

blota1513

scribble1540

daub1589

bescrawl1641

scrawl1647

bescribble1807

overscrawl1871

1647 A. Cowley Written in Juice of Lemon in Mistress ii Like Hypocrites, which seem unspotted here; But when they sadly come to dye, And the last Fire their Truth must try, Scrauld ore like thee, and blotted they appear.

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 176 The windows of all the inns are scrawled with doggrel rhimes.

1841 G. Borrow Zincali I. i. ix. 153 Many people carry papers about with them, scrawled with hieroglyphics.

1860 J. L. Motley Hist. United Netherlands I. i. 2 Letters..all to be scrawled over in the margin by the diligent old man.

1889 H. R. Haggard Allan's Wife 36 The western tempest was scrawled all over with lines of intolerable light.

2. intransitive. To scribble, to write carelessly or awkwardly. Also †to scrawl it.Quot. 1647 at sense 1b may be an indirect passive and may belong here.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > write in specific style [verb (intransitive)] > illegibly or untidily

scrabble1537

scribble1573

to scrawl it1611

scribble-scrabble1847

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Griffonner, to write fast, and ill; to scrible, to scrall it.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. i. 7 He orders Dorcas..to be always aiming at scrawling with a pen, lest inky fingers should give suspicions.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Day-dream in Poems (new ed.) II. 156 The butler drank, the steward scrawl'd.

1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz in La Saisiaz: Two Poets of Croisic 75 Splash and scrawl, Completed lay thy piece, swift penman Paul!

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹1665

n.²1847

v.¹c1380

v.²1611

单词	scrawl
释义	scrawln.¹ Brit. /skrɔːl/, U.S. /skrɔl/, /skrɑl/ Forms: 1700s scrall, skrawl, skrale, 1600s– scrawl. Etymology: < scrawl v.² 1. a. Something scrawled; a hastily and badly written letter, a careless sketch. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] > hastily written letter scribble1577 scrawl1665 scrib1795 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [noun] > a drawing > rough or preliminary > careless scrawl1840 1665 R. Moray Let. 12 Nov. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1965) II. 606 I sent him a scrawle of a Map of the place with my letter, which hee it seemes hath not printed. 1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour v. i. 48 There, read. (Shows Letters.) That—That's a Scrawl of Quality. 1739 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. Jan. (1966) II. 134 I forget you are at Paris, and 'tis not polite to trouble you with such long scrawls as might perhaps be supportable at Monts. 1792 W. Scott Let. 10 Sept. (1932) I. 20 Taking the advantage..of my father's leaving this place, who will take charge of this scroll, I sit down to answer your favour. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. I. 107 A scrawl from his pencil brings an enormous price. 1882 B. D. W. Ramsay Recoll. Mil. Serv. I. xi. 286 An hour or two had not elapsed before I received a scrawl in Sir Colin's own handwriting. †b. plural. Scrawled or illegible characters. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [noun] > bad handwriting > untidy or illegible scribbling1536 scribble-scrabble1602 scrawling1612 scrawl1710 scrawls1728 hieroglyphic1742 scoteinography1779 scratch1785 pot-hookery1795 hen scrat1825 cryptogram1827 scribble1828 griffonage1832 hen-scratching1851 chicken scratches1863 hieroglyph1875 1728 Tickell Horn-bk. 34 So from the letters of our native tongue, Put in Greek scrawls, a mystery too is sprung. 1767 W. Harte Amaranth 96 In sable scrawls I Nero's name perus'd. 1808 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. ii, in Poems (ed. 3) 83 Mark now in what confusion, stoop or stand, The crooked Scrawls of many a clownish Hand. 2. A careless, illegible style of handwriting. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [noun] > bad handwriting > untidy or illegible scribbling1536 scribble-scrabble1602 scrawling1612 scrawl1710 scrawls1728 hieroglyphic1742 scoteinography1779 scratch1785 pot-hookery1795 hen scrat1825 cryptogram1827 scribble1828 griffonage1832 hen-scratching1851 chicken scratches1863 hieroglyph1875 1710 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 3 Nov. (1948) I. 79 A bad scrawl is so snug. 1775 F. Burney Let. 13 Nov. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1990) II. 90 Her Hand writing..was..a miserable scrawl. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xv. 140 The scrawl of..childish hands. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). scrawln.² Brit. /skrɔːl/, U.S. /skrɔl/, /skrɑl/ Etymology: Perhaps < scrawl v.¹ But compare Old French escrouelle river-shrimp. dialect. (See quot. 1847.) ΚΠ 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Scrawl, the young of the dog-crab, or a poor sort of crab itself. Linc. 1861 Ld. Tennyson Sailor Boy 12 And on thy ribs the limpet sticks, And in thy heart the scrawl shall play. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). scrawlv.¹ Forms: Middle English, 1500s–1600s scrawle, Middle English–1500s scraule, 1500s scrale, skrall(e, skrawl, 1500s–1600s scraul, scrall, 1500s–1700s, 1800s (dialect) scrawl. Etymology: Apparently an altered form of crawl v.¹, perhaps suggested by sprawl v. of cognate meaning. Obsolete exc. dialect. †1. intransitive. To spread the limbs abroad in a sprawling manner; to gesticulate. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of stretching body > stretch oneself or be stretched [verb (intransitive)] > in an awkward or ungainly manner sprawlc1000 scrawlc1380 society > communication > indication > gesturing or gesture > make gestures [verb (intransitive)] beckonc950 becka1300 wevec1325 playc1330 to make a countenancea1375 signc1520 token1535 gesture1542 starkle?1544 scrawl1582 gesticulate1609 annuate1623 to make a motion1719 wink1738 motion1788 c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. ccxxx, in Sel. Wks. II. 204 And þis spirit cryinge, made him scrawle [v.rr. spraule, scraule], or, al to-teerynge him, went oute from him. 1560 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Æneid ix. A a 2 As he there did pendant skralle; He pluckt him back by foarce. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 28 Hee freams, and skrawling to the skye brays terribil hoyseth. 2. To move with a scrambling and shuffling motion. = crawl v.¹ 1. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > moving along with hands and feet or with body prone > move along with hands and feet or with body prone [verb (intransitive)] > scramble scrawl1530 sprawl1582 scramblea1586 scrabble1638 scrubblec1854 1530 Bible (Tyndale) Lev. xi. f. xix All that scrauleth apon the erth, is an abhominacyon. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 45^v If gentils be skrauling [1580 scrauling], call magget the pye. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xxiv. 845/1 Not so few as one hundred and twenty of knowne Iesuites and Seminaries scrawled like frogs, through her faire soile. 1677 E. Coles Dict. Eng.-Lat. To scrall (stir); motito. 1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth I. 127 He scrawling, she tugging, with hawling and lugging, Through Window at last he got in. 1851 Gloss. Provinc. Words Cumberland Scrawling. 1892 C. A. Clarke Tum Fowt Sketches 40 (E.D.D.) T' poor pig what had just scrawled through t' bottom o' t' cart. †3. transferred. To teem. = crawl v.¹ 5. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > make abundant [verb (transitive)] > abound in or with > swarm with wallc1000 to swarm in1482 wamble1485 scrawl1530 to swarm with1548 exceed1624 pullulate1641 sny1674 teem1710 spawn1818 1530 Bible (Tyndale) Exod. viii. f. xii^v And the ryuer shall scrale with frogges. 1643 J. Lightfoot Handfull Gleanings Exod. 14 The waters..scrawle with frogges. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). scrawlv.² Brit. /skrɔːl/, U.S. /skrɔl/, /skrɑl/ Forms: Also 1600s scraul, scrall. Etymology: Perhaps a use of scrawl v.¹, the development of sense being suggested by the coincidence of the initial consonant-group with that of scrabble, scribble, scroll. 1. a. transitive. To write or draw in a sprawling, untidy manner. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > write in specific style [verb (transitive)] > illegibly or untidily scribblec1456 bescribble1582 scrawl1612 scratch1806 scribble-scrabble1847 scrabble1856 squiggle1942 society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > represent graphically [verb (transitive)] > line or figure > in a sprawling untidy manner scrawl1748 1612 [implied in: J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. xx. 230 Schollars now will be carefull to keepe their Greeke Testaments faire from blotting or scrauling. (at scrawling n.)]. ?1635 F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia (new ed.) iii. 116 To whom poore Vulcan..Scrall'd many a thanke. 1748 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 26 July (1966) II. 407 I enclose to you a rough draght of it, drawn (or more properly, scrawl'd) by [my] own hand. 1781 W. Cowper Truth 156 Who, where'er he came, Scrawl'd upon glass miss Bridget's lovely name. 1879 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times II. xxvii. 304 The war correspondent now scrawls his despatches as he sits in his saddle under the fire of the enemy. 1887 A. Jessopp Arcady vii. 215 [The] accomplishment of scrawling their names at the bottom of a cheque. b. To cover (a surface) with scrawling inscriptions or marks. Also with over. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > mark [verb (transitive)] > cover with scrawling marks, inscriptions, etc. scribble1540 scrawl1647 society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > write in specific style [verb (transitive)] > illegibly or untidily > cover with blota1513 scribble1540 daub1589 bescrawl1641 scrawl1647 bescribble1807 overscrawl1871 1647 A. Cowley Written in Juice of Lemon in Mistress ii Like Hypocrites, which seem unspotted here; But when they sadly come to dye, And the last Fire their Truth must try, Scrauld ore like thee, and blotted they appear. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 176 The windows of all the inns are scrawled with doggrel rhimes. 1841 G. Borrow Zincali I. i. ix. 153 Many people carry papers about with them, scrawled with hieroglyphics. 1860 J. L. Motley Hist. United Netherlands I. i. 2 Letters..all to be scrawled over in the margin by the diligent old man. 1889 H. R. Haggard Allan's Wife 36 The western tempest was scrawled all over with lines of intolerable light. 2. intransitive. To scribble, to write carelessly or awkwardly. Also †to scrawl it.Quot. 1647 at sense 1b may be an indirect passive and may belong here. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > write in specific style [verb (intransitive)] > illegibly or untidily scrabble1537 scribble1573 to scrawl it1611 scribble-scrabble1847 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Griffonner, to write fast, and ill; to scrible, to scrall it. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. i. 7 He orders Dorcas..to be always aiming at scrawling with a pen, lest inky fingers should give suspicions. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Day-dream in Poems (new ed.) II. 156 The butler drank, the steward scrawl'd. 1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz in La Saisiaz: Two Poets of Croisic 75 Splash and scrawl, Completed lay thy piece, swift penman Paul! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1665n.²1847v.¹c1380v.²1611
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