chicken scratch vs scribble

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. 

scribble

noun
  • Careless, hasty writing, doodle or drawing 

verb
  • To write badly; to work as an inferior author or journalist. 

  • To doodle. 

  • To write or draw carelessly and in a hurry. 

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