chicken scratch

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   cramped or illegible handwriting

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Questions about chicken scratch

What does chicken scratch mean?

chicken scratch means "cramped or illegible handwriting".

Is chicken scratch a common word?

chicken scratch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.