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SCRAWL
scribble, scratch, scrawl, cacography
(noun) poor handwriting
scribble, scrawl
(verb) write carelessly
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
scrawl (countable and uncountable, plural scrawls)
Irregular, possibly illegible handwriting.
A hastily or carelessly written note etc.
Writing that lacks literary merit.
(countable, uncommon) A broken branch of a tree.
(uncommon) The young of the dog-crab.
Verb
scrawl (third-person singular simple present scrawls, present participle scrawling, simple past and past participle scrawled)
(transitive) To write something hastily or illegibly.
(intransitive) To write in an irregular or illegible manner.
(intransitive) To write unskilfully and inelegantly.
Etymology 2
Verb
scrawl (third-person singular simple present scrawls, present participle scrawling, simple past and past participle scrawled)
To creep; crawl; (by extension) to swarm with crawling things
Anagrams
• crawls
Source: Wiktionary
Scrawl, v. i.
Definition: See Crawl. [Obs.] Latimer.
Scrawl, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scrawled; p. pr. & vb. n. Scrawling.] Etym: [Probably corrupted from scrabble.]
Definition: To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly; to write hastily and carelessly; to scratch; to scribble; as, to scrawl a letter. His name, scrawled by himself. Macaulay.
Scrawl, v. i.
Definition: To write unskillfully and inelegantly. Though with a golden pen you scrawl. Swift.
Scrawl, n.
Definition: Unskillful or inelegant writing; that which is unskillfully or inelegantly written. The left will make such a scrawl, that it will not be legible. Arbuthnot. You bid me write no more than a scrawl to you. Gray.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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MASQUERADE
(verb) pretend to be someone or something that you are not; “he is masquerading as an expert on the internet”; “This silly novel is masquerading as a serious historical treaty”
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