scrawl

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Irregular, poor handwriting; especially, such writing that is illegible.
2. (countable, uncountable)A hastily or carelessly written note etc.
3. (countable, uncountable)Writing that lacks literary merit.
4. (countable, uncommon)A broken branch of a tree.
5. (countable, uncommon, uncountable)The young of the dog-crab.

verb

1. (transitive)To write something hastily or illegibly.

   “She scrawled the main points onto her notepad.”

2. (intransitive)To write in an irregular or illegible manner.
3. (intransitive)To write unskilfully and inelegantly.

   “c. 1710-1730, Jonathan Swift (probably), Sandys's Ghost Though with a golden pen you scrawl.”

4. To creep; crawl; to move slowly, with difficulty, fearfully, or stealthily.

   “we will scrape and scrawl, and catch and pull to us all that we may get”

   “When I saw him scrawlen on the plain, My heart aw flacker'd for't, I was sae fain.”

   “T'poor pig what had just scrawled through t'bottom o' t'cart,”

   “'Cut its throat,' I calls to him, but he didn't, just slashes its forepaw; but it dropt di-rekly, couldn't hardly scrawl out on the bank.'”