Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrawming
Literary usage of Scrawming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"To scratch, scrawl ; as of a foot-rule packed up carelessly with tools,—" They're
scrawming ... or of a girl " What a great scrawming lass she has gotten. ..."
2. A Glossary of Words Used in South-west Lincolnshire: (Wapentake of Graffoe) by Robert Eden George Cole (1886)
"... or of a girl " What a great scrawming lass she has gotten." SCREED, 5.—A shred,
or narrow strip of anything. They've ta'en in a screed by the road-side. ..."
3. Transactions by Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire (1875)
"He disclaimed any further knowledge of this noticeable stone, which he described
as possessing " great scrawming letters which ..."
4. A Book about the Garden and the Gardener by Samuel Reynolds Hole (1892)
"... and a-scrawming * all over the house, and to rub themselves against the roof,
looking something like a swan in a hen-coop, and seeming to say, ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"To scratch, scrawl ; as of a foot-rule packed up carelessly with tools,—" They're
scrawming ... or of a girl " What a great scrawming lass she has gotten. ..."
6. A Glossary of Words Used in South-west Lincolnshire: (Wapentake of Graffoe) by Robert Eden George Cole (1886)
"... or of a girl " What a great scrawming lass she has gotten." SCREED, 5.—A shred,
or narrow strip of anything. They've ta'en in a screed by the road-side. ..."
7. Transactions by Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire (1875)
"He disclaimed any further knowledge of this noticeable stone, which he described
as possessing " great scrawming letters which ..."
8. A Book about the Garden and the Gardener by Samuel Reynolds Hole (1892)
"... and a-scrawming * all over the house, and to rub themselves against the roof,
looking something like a swan in a hen-coop, and seeming to say, ..."
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