Uncultivated chap lacking English, penning article (6)
I believe the answer is:
fallow
'uncultivated' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'chap lacking english penning article' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'chap' could be 'al' and 'al' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'flow' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for fallow that I've seen before include "idle" , "(Of land) left unsown" , "Uncultivated" , "Inactive" , "Undeveloped but potentially useful" .)