0 writing that is untidy and difficult to read:
You might end up with the wrong medication if your pharmacist can’t read your doctor’s chicken scratch.
Understanding his chicken scratches would've been difficult enough, but his English was really old-fashioned as well.
Using the chicken-scratch cursive scrawl of his left hand, he began writing.
I gave my daughter some chalk and she made chicken scratches and sounded out her name.
1 food that chickens enjoy, usually a mixture of seeds, dropped on the ground for them to find in addition to their main food:
2 to write something in an untidy way that is difficult to read:
The doctor may be unable to find your medical records or perhaps unable to read the chicken scratches made by the medical professional who had them last.
Researchers spent months learning to decode his chicken-scratch.
He's left-handed, and his mother said that his penmanship was chicken scratch.
I was able to track down my notes from last time, and with the "chicken scratch" of my previous test recipe in hand it was easy to make some adjustments.
Studies have shown that electronic records can reduce medical errors - sometimes the result of chicken-scratch handwriting.
The symbols looked like chicken scratches to him, all right angles and slashes.
We keep an eye on the walls and take care of any chicken scratches that show up.
They extract fat and protein that then is added to everything from dog food to chicken scratch.
