scrawler

American  

[skraw-ler] / ˈskrɔ lər /

noun

1. a person who scrawls.

2. an agricultural machine for laying out fields in which plants are to be placed in ridged rows.

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Etymology

Origin of scrawler

First recorded in 1725–35; scrawl + -er ¹

Example Sentences

If you consider Yusuf Pathan, with two half-centuries in 49 international outings for India, a better batsman than Virat Kohli, then you might as well make the I-woz-ere graffiti scrawler Poet Laureate.

From The Guardian • May 12, 2010

I’m a terrible scrawler myself; but then my writing has to keep up with my thoughts, and has to struggle hard, with the certainty of failure always before it.

From By Birth a Lady by Fenn, George Manville

He had his suspicions as to the scrawler of those lines, but he could not be sure.

From The Woodlanders by Hardy, Thomas

Over the original breathings and accents some late scrawler has in many places put others, in a very careless fashion.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose