单词 | overscrawl |
释义 | overscrawlv. Chiefly poetic. Now rare. transitive. To scrawl over or on. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > write in specific style [verb (transitive)] > illegibly or untidily > cover with blota1513 scribble1540 daub1589 bescrawl1641 scrawl1647 bescribble1807 overscrawl1871 1871 R. Browning Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau 28 Why keep each fool's bequeathment, scratch and blurr Which overscrawl and underscore the piece? 1895 A. Dobson Coll. Poems II. 198 Or I try to draw Dora (my blotter Is all overscrawled with her head). a1910 W. V. Moody Quarry in Poems & Plays (1912) 26 The trappings of the beast were over-scrawled With broideries. Derivatives overˈscrawled adj. rare ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [adjective] > bad > illegible or untidy > covered with scribbled1550 scribble-scrabble1703 overscrawled1879 bescrawled1880 hen-scratched1915 1879 G. Meredith Egoist II. xi. 220 A yet more instructive passage than the over-scrawled Seventieth, or French Section. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1871 |
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