chicken scratch vs scrivening

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. 

scrivening

noun
  • The product of a scrivener; that which is written or copied. 

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