this term can be defined to mean either

a) someone's singing that sounds so horrendously bad it's as if a hen or rooster is literally scratching a blackboard.

b) a synonym, used mainly in Alberta in Western Canada, for turkey-chicken scrawl or terrible penmanship
two people who are in conversation, suddenly hear an unfamiliar voice coming from their school's basement.

person a): hang on, what's this hen-scratching?
person b) i think it's my friend Paul trying to sing, but he's singing out of tune with our high school band..

person a) roflmao
by Sexydimma January 30, 2012
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