chicken scratch | Idiomator

Meaning: Chicken feedconsisting of random mixedgrainssuch ascorn,wheat,barley,sorghumand milling by-products.2008, Richard Dwight Apgar,Tough Shit, Eliot: A Yank's Tale, Dorrance Publishing,→ISBN, page 1:A soft odor ofchicken scratch, mash, and manure always permeated the air when you approached. Attached to the chicken coop was a smokehouse that contained several smoked ham shoulders hanging from hooks.; (informal,idiomatic)Cramped orillegiblehandwriting.Synonym:scrawl2014, A. Meredith Walters,Light in the Shadows, Simon and Schuster,→ISBN, page25:The pencil in my hand was limp between my fingers and I couldn't focus on thechicken scratchon the pages. My breathing had become shallow and my heart was racing. I was in the midst of a full-blown panic attack.; A type ofcross-stitchembroiderydone onginghamfabric.Synonyms:Amish embroidery,Depression lace; ATohono O'odhamstyle of dance music derived fromnorteño.; A type of draggingtwo-stepperformed to this.

Examples:

EN: - It's chicken scratch if you ask me.
ES: Si me preguntas a mí, es un montón de pollos picoteando.
EN: Not even you, chicken scratch.
ES: Ni siquiera tú, garabato de niña.
EN: See, these symbols could be "father"... or "mother"... or they could just be chicken scratch.
ES: Estos símbolos pueden ser "padre" o "madre" o pueden ser sólo arañazos.
EN: What's this chicken scratch?
ES: ¿Qué son estos garabatos?
EN: - This is chicken scratch.
ES: -Esto no es nada.
EN: It's chicken scratch, most of it.
ES: Son garabatos, la mayoría.
EN: I mean, no one's going to find this meaningless chicken scratch adorable.
ES: Nadie va a encontrar adorable este garabato sin sentido.
EN: Do you see that chicken scratch there?
ES: ¿Ves esas patas de mosca?
EN: Who can read that chicken scratch?
ES: ¿Quién entiende esos garabatos?
EN: You're fluent in chicken scratch.
ES: Tú eres bueno con los garabatos.
EN: I couldn't read that chicken scratch on it.
ES: No pude leerlo con esos garabatos de pollo.
EN: No longer will I have to read a shopping list written in your chicken scratch.
ES: Ya no voy a tener que leer una lista de la compra escrita con letra de médico.
EN: My chicken scratch?
ES: ¿Mi letra de médico?
EN: I would recognize Dr. Powell's indiscernible chicken scratch anywhere.
ES: Reconocería la ilegible letra de la Dra. Powell en cualquier lado.
EN: Because there was a postcard from his surf shop with a bunch of Dad's chicken scratch all over it.
ES: Porque había una postal de su tienda de surf con un montón de pollo de papá arañado sobre ella.

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