Idiom
chicken scratch
Meaning
Cramped or illegible handwriting.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I cannot read his chicken scratch.”
“The doctor wrote the prescription in such messy chicken scratch that the pharmacist could not read it.”
“After years of typing, his handwriting had deteriorated into mere chicken scratch, making his personal journals nearly impossible for anyone else to decipher.”
Examples
simple
“I cannot read his chicken scratch.”
contextual
“The doctor wrote the prescription in such messy chicken scratch that the pharmacist could not read it.”
complex
“After years of typing, his handwriting had deteriorated into mere chicken scratch, making his personal journals nearly impossible for anyone else to decipher.”
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