scrawler

[skraw-ler]

noun

1. a person who scrawls.

2. an agricultural machine for laying out fields in which plants are to be placed in ridged rows.

Word History and Origins

Origin of scrawler¹

First recorded in 1725–35; scrawl + -er ¹

Example Sentences

“They produce massive, squiggly scrawlers that fill the sky like spaghetti. They’re my favourite.”

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Over the original breathings and accents some late scrawler has in many places put others, in a very careless fashion.

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It’s enough to make the average scrawler want to be at least a bit more attentive to his or her  penmanship.

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I’m a terrible scrawler myself; but then my writing has to keep up with my thoughts, and has to struggle hard, with the certainty of failure always before it.

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He had his suspicions as to the scrawler of those lines, but he could not be sure.

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