transcribble

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English

Etymology

From trans- +‎ scribble.

Verb

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

  1. (archaic) To transcribe poorly.[1]
    • 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:
      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.

References

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “transcribe”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.