Meaning
5 senses(countable, uncountable)Irregular, poor handwriting; especially, such writing that is illegible.
Gekritzel
кара́кулиkarákuli, крокозя́брыkrokozjábry
карлючкиkarljučky, нерозбірливий почеркnerozbirlyvyj počerk
poor handwriting
(countable, uncountable)A hastily or carelessly written note etc.
(countable, uncountable)Writing that lacks literary merit.
(countable, uncommon)A broken branch of a tree.
(countable, uncommon, uncountable)The young of the dog-crab.
Examples
6 sentencesDoctors’ scrawls and scribbles are notoriously hard to read.
On the memo was scrawled, "have her practice floating in the water."
A terrible, almost illegible scrawl.
deEine schreckliche Sauklaue, die fast unleserlich ist. — kroko
This scrawl is barely legible.
ruЭти каракули едва можно разобрать. — Wezel
deDieses Gekrakel ist kaum zu lesen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Some punster had scrawled the word 'mass' at the top of the poster advertising the sixth form's debating society.
deIrgendein Witzbold hatte das Wort „Gottesdienst“ oben auf das Plakat gekritzelt, das zur Debattier-AG der Oberstufe einlud. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Translations
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Origin
Possibly from Middle English scraulen (“to spread out one's limbs; sprawl”), itself an altPossibly from Middle English scraulen (“to spread out one's limbs; sprawl”), itself an alteration of spraulen (“to sprawl”) or craulen, crawlen (“to crawl”).
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Forms
plural: scrawlsSynonyms
4 synonyms- poor handwriting:scribblescratchcacography
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.