scrawl

Irregular, poor handwriting; especially, such writing that is illegible.

A hastily or carelessly written note etc.

Writing that lacks literary merit.

A broken branch of a tree.

The young of the dog-crab.

To write something hastily or illegibly.

She scrawled the main points onto her notepad.

To write in an irregular or illegible manner.

To write unskilfully and inelegantly.

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

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.