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Scrawl vs Scraw - What's the difference?

scrawl | scraw |

As nouns the difference between scrawl and scraw

is that scrawl is an irregular, possibly illegible handwriting while scraw is a sod of grass-grown turf from the surface of a bog or from a field.

As a verb scrawl

is to write something hastily or illegibly.

scrawl

English

Etymology 1

Possibly (etyl)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An irregular, possibly illegible handwriting.
  • A hastily, or carelessly written note etc.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To write something hastily or illegibly.
  • To write in an irregular or illegible manner.
  • To write unskilfully and inelegantly.
  • * Milton
  • Though with a golden pen you scrawl .

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Latimer)
    (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    scraw

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sod of grass-grown turf from the surface of a bog or from a field.
  • A turf covering the roof of a cottage beneath the thatch.
  • (Webster 1913)