chicken scratch vs scratching

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. 

scratching

noun
  • The act or sound of something being scratched. 

  • Record scratching, a technique of starting and stopping a vinyl record from playing to produce music in hip hop. 

  • A pork scratching. 

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