chicken scratch vs chirography

chicken scratch

noun
  • Cramped or illegible handwriting. 

  • Chicken feed consisting of random mixed grains such as corn, wheat, barley, sorghum and milling by-products. 

  • A type of cross-stitch embroidery done on gingham fabric. 

chirography

noun
  • Synonym of handwriting or penmanship, one's personal skill at writing. 

  • Synonym of calligraphy, the art of beautiful writing. 

  • Synonym of palmistry, fortune-telling based on one's hand. 

  • Synonym of autograph, writing in one's own hand. 

How often have the words chicken scratch and chirography occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )