Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrawms
Literary usage of Scrawms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dramatic Values by Charles Edward Montague (1911)
"... and the rain also (supplied by Dolly in short scrawms, as the Irish say, of
strategic weeping) doing its office with much fidelity to nature. ..."
2. Irish Idylls by Jane Barlow (1893)
"Troth have we," said Judy Ryan, " the same sort of notion I've got of what Mr.
Corr does be weighin' out of a yaller-papered box wid black scrawms to it, ..."
3. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1902)
"Afterwards, being a very brainless creature, he is not able to rediscover the
pith of his ingress, and so scrawms about the floor of the pot in durance vile ..."
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