scrawl

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• Received-Pronunciation: /skɹɔːl/
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• Australian, British, New-Zealand, Southern, Standard: /skɹoːl/
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• /skɹɔl/ without the cot–caught merger
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• /skɹɑl/ without the cot–caught merger
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• Canada: /skɹɒl/
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• Scotland: /skɾɔl/
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• Wales: /skɾɔːl/
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• rhymes with -ɔːl
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• CMU ARPABET: S K R AO1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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.

From Middle English scraulen (“to crawl”), itself an alteration of crawlen (“to crawl”). More at crawl.

93 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: խզբզոց (xzbzocʻ) — irregular handwriting
• Azerbaijani: cızma-qara — irregular handwriting
• Bulgarian: драсканица (draskanica) — irregular handwriting
• Chinese Mandarin: 塗鴉 /涂鸦 (túyā) — irregular handwriting
• Chinese Mandarin: 塗鴨 /涂鸭) (túyā) — irregular handwriting
• Czech: čmáranice — irregular handwriting
• Czech: škrábanice — irregular handwriting
• Czech: klikyháky — irregular handwriting
• Czech: škrabopis — irregular handwriting
• Dutch: gekrabbel — irregular handwriting
• Esperanto: skribaĉo — irregular handwriting
• Finnish: harakanvarpaat — irregular handwriting
• French: griffonnage — irregular handwriting
• French: gribouillage — irregular handwriting
• German: Gekritzel — irregular handwriting
• Hungarian: macskakaparás — irregular handwriting
• Hungarian: krikszkraksz — irregular handwriting
• Hungarian: ákombákom — irregular handwriting
• Icelandic: krot — irregular handwriting
• Icelandic: klór — irregular handwriting
• Icelandic: pírumpár — irregular handwriting
• Italian: scarabocchio — irregular handwriting
• Italian: girigogolo — irregular handwriting
• Italian: sgorbio — irregular handwriting
• Italian: svolazzo — irregular handwriting
• Japanese: 落書き (rakugaki) — irregular handwriting
• Polish: bazgroły — irregular handwriting
• Polish: bohomaz — irregular handwriting
• Polish: bazgranina — irregular handwriting
• Polish: gryzmoły — irregular handwriting
• Portuguese: garrancho — irregular handwriting
• Portuguese: rabisco — irregular handwriting
• Russian: кара́кули (karákuli) — irregular handwriting
• Russian: крокозя́бры (krokozjábry) — irregular handwriting
• Spanish: garrapateo — irregular handwriting
• Ukrainian: карлючки (karljučky) — irregular handwriting
• Ukrainian: нерозбірливий почерк (nerozbirlyvyj počerk) — irregular handwriting
• Dutch: krabbel — hastily or carelessly written note
• Esperanto: skribaĉo — hastily or carelessly written note
• Finnish: harakanvarpaat — hastily or carelessly written note
• Finnish: raapustus — hastily or carelessly written note
• Finnish: riipustus — hastily or carelessly written note
• Hungarian: firka — hastily or carelessly written note
• Hungarian: irkafirka — hastily or carelessly written note
• Italian: scarabocchio — hastily or carelessly written note
• Portuguese: garrancho — hastily or carelessly written note
• Armenian: խզբզել (xzbzel) — to write hastily or illegibly
• Bulgarian: надрасквам (nadraskvam) — to write hastily or illegibly
• Czech: načmárat — to write hastily or illegibly
• Czech: naškrábat — to write hastily or illegibly
• Esperanto: skribaĉi — to write hastily or illegibly
• Finnish: raapustaa — to write hastily or illegibly
• Finnish: riipustaa — to write hastily or illegibly
• German: kritzeln — to write hastily or illegibly
• German: krakeln — to write hastily or illegibly
• German: dahin schmieren — to write hastily or illegibly
• Icelandic: krota — to write hastily or illegibly
• Icelandic: krassa — to write hastily or illegibly
• Icelandic: hripa — to write hastily or illegibly
• Icelandic: pára — to write hastily or illegibly
• Icelandic: skrifa flausturslega — to write hastily or illegibly
• Ido: skribachar — to write hastily or illegibly
• Italian: scarabocchiare — to write hastily or illegibly
• Polish: gryzmolić — to write hastily or illegibly
• Polish: nagryzmolić — to write hastily or illegibly
• Polish: bazgrać — to write hastily or illegibly
• Polish: nabazgrać — to write hastily or illegibly
• Portuguese: rabiscar — to write hastily or illegibly
• Russian: цара́пать (carápatʹ) — to write hastily or illegibly
• Russian: шкря́бать (škrjábatʹ) — to write hastily or illegibly
• Spanish: garrapatear — to write hastily or illegibly
• Ukrainian: шкрябати (škrjabaty) — to write hastily or illegibly
• Ukrainian: базграти (bazhraty) — to write hastily or illegibly
• Armenian: խզբզել (xzbzel) — to write in an irregular or illegible manner
• Czech: škrábat — to write in an irregular or illegible manner
• Czech: drápat — to write in an irregular or illegible manner
• Esperanto: skribaĉi — to write in an irregular or illegible manner
• Finnish: raapustaa — to write in an irregular or illegible manner
• Finnish: riipustaa — to write in an irregular or illegible manner
• French: griffonner — to write in an irregular or illegible manner
• German: kritzeln — to write in an irregular or illegible manner
• Ido: skribachar — to write in an irregular or illegible manner
• Italian: scarabocchiare — to write in an irregular or illegible manner
• Polish: bazgrać — to write in an irregular or illegible manner
• Polish: gryzmolić — to write in an irregular or illegible manner
• Polish: skrobać — to write in an irregular or illegible manner
• Polish: nagryzmolić — to write in an irregular or illegible manner
• Portuguese: rabiscar — to write in an irregular or illegible manner
• Russian: цара́пать (carápatʹ) — to write in an irregular or illegible manner
• Russian: шкря́бать (škrjábatʹ) — to write in an irregular or illegible manner
• Spanish: garrapatear — to write in an irregular or illegible manner
• Ukrainian: шкрябати (škrjabaty) — to write in an irregular or illegible manner
• Ukrainian: базграти (bazhraty) — to write in an irregular or illegible manner