chicken scratch vs longhand

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. 

longhand

noun
  • The written characters used in the common method of writing; opposed to shorthand, or typing or printing; handwriting. 

adv
  • Written by hand in normal characters, as opposed to shorthand. 

  • Written by hand (with pen or pencil), rather than printed out; handwritten. 

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