scrawl vs scribbling

scrawl

noun
  • A hastily or carelessly written note etc. 

  • Writing that lacks literary merit. 

  • Irregular, possibly illegible handwriting. 

  • The young of the dog-crab. 

  • A broken branch of a tree. 

verb
  • To write in an irregular or illegible manner. 

  • To write something hastily or illegibly. 

  • To write unskilfully and inelegantly. 

  • To creep; crawl; (by extension) to swarm with crawling things 

scribbling

noun
  • That which has been scribbled, written in a scrawled or careless hand. 

  • The carding of wool or cotton. 

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