Question of the Day #1197

Furiously writing in dark-room chicken scratch, I try to capture quotes from the comics when I can, while laughing with Marisa at the punch lines.

From the 3rd paragraph of this article at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women.

  上記の文で、chicken scratchの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "chicken scratch" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

すさまじい悪筆◆鶏が引っかいた足跡のような筆跡

   

Answer

According to Dictionary.com:

handwriting of words or symbols that is too messy or roughly drawn to be easily read

 

Examples

1. They need precise specs for the remodeling, but these drawings and dimensions are just chicken scratch.
2. Milo left us a note, but can anyone figure out his chicken scratch?
3. Understanding his chicken scratches would've been difficult enough, but his English was really old-fashioned as well.
4. Studies have shown that electronic records can reduce medical errors - sometimes the result of chicken-scratch handwriting.
5. “I’m terrible at drawing. And my handwriting is like chicken scratch. Sometimes when I read notes I took during class, I can’t understand what I wrote. It’s bad.”
A Soft Place to Land by Janae Marks

   

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