chicken scratch vs manuscript

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. 

manuscript

noun
  • A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced. 

  • A single, original copy of a book, article, composition etc, written by hand or even printed, submitted as original for (copy-editing and) reproductive publication. 

adj
  • Handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced. 

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