scrawm, v. dial.
(skrɔːm)
[App. a phonetically symbolic formation after words beginning with scr-.]
trans. To scratch.
In dialects also in other senses: To scramble, sprawl; to climb, clamber; to scribble, scrawl: see Eng. Dial. Dict.
| 1880 Tennyson Northern Cobbler iv, He scrawm'd an' scratted my faäce like a cat. 1886 S.W. Linc. Gloss., Scrawm, to scratch, scrawl; as of a foot-rule packed up carelessly with tools,—‘They're scrawming it all over’. |