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Chicken Scratch Etymology. As an idiom, chicken scratch refers to undecipherable handwriting, like a doctor jots on a prescription, compared to random marks a chicken makes in the soil. Oed's earliest evidence for hen scratch is from 1868, in the writing of e. The earliest known use of the noun hen scratch is in the 1860s. The first use of chicken scratch to mean bad handwriting is by shakespeare, in 1909. A hen scratch (hen scratch, n. The stratford swindle must be stopped! A piece of untidy or illegible handwriting; Chicken scratch (countable and uncountable, plural chicken scratches) chicken feed consisting of random mixed grains such. [ u ] food that chickens enjoy, usually a mixture of seeds, dropped on the ground for them to find in addition to their main food: Says bostleman, whose shaxper is an illiterate.

The earliest known use of the noun hen scratch is in the 1860s. Says bostleman, whose shaxper is an illiterate. A hen scratch (hen scratch, n. [ u ] food that chickens enjoy, usually a mixture of seeds, dropped on the ground for them to find in addition to their main food: The stratford swindle must be stopped! A piece of untidy or illegible handwriting; Oed's earliest evidence for hen scratch is from 1868, in the writing of e. The first use of chicken scratch to mean bad handwriting is by shakespeare, in 1909. Chicken scratch (countable and uncountable, plural chicken scratches) chicken feed consisting of random mixed grains such. As an idiom, chicken scratch refers to undecipherable handwriting, like a doctor jots on a prescription, compared to random marks a chicken makes in the soil.

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Chicken Scratch Etymology Says bostleman, whose shaxper is an illiterate. A hen scratch (hen scratch, n. The earliest known use of the noun hen scratch is in the 1860s. Says bostleman, whose shaxper is an illiterate. Chicken scratch (countable and uncountable, plural chicken scratches) chicken feed consisting of random mixed grains such. [ u ] food that chickens enjoy, usually a mixture of seeds, dropped on the ground for them to find in addition to their main food: The stratford swindle must be stopped! As an idiom, chicken scratch refers to undecipherable handwriting, like a doctor jots on a prescription, compared to random marks a chicken makes in the soil. Oed's earliest evidence for hen scratch is from 1868, in the writing of e. The first use of chicken scratch to mean bad handwriting is by shakespeare, in 1909. A piece of untidy or illegible handwriting;