transcribble

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verb

To transcribe poorly.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

verbtranscribble (third-person singular simple present transcribbles, present participle transcribbling, simple past and past participle transcribbled)

present singular third person transcribbles · participle present transcribbling · participle past transcribbled · past transcribbled

  1. archaicTo transcribe poorly.
    1 more example

    By this account of his day’s tranſactions, the reader will ſee how very impoſſible it was for him to find leiſure for ſtudy, in the midſt of ſo many important avocations; yet notwithſtanding this great variety of buſineſs, he made a ſhift ſometimes to play half a tune on the German-flute in a morning, and once in a quarter of a year, took the pains to tranſcribble a ſermon out of various authors.

    1751, Francis Coventry, The History of Pompey the Little; Or, the Life and Adventures of a Lap-dog, C. Cooke, published 1799, pages 145-146

Origin

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Chicago

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