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transcribble

transcribble verb: to transcribe poorly.

Verb

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

  1. (archaic) To transcribe poorly.
    • 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...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

Forms of transcribble

third-person singular presenttranscribbles
present participletranscribbling
past participletranscribbled
pasttranscribbled

Origin of transcribble

From tran- + scribble.

Questions about transcribble

What does transcribble mean?
Transcribble means to transcribe poorly.
What part of speech is transcribble?
Transcribble is a verb.
What is the past tense of transcribble?
The past tense of transcribble is transcribbled.

Words near transcribble in the dictionary

  1. transcreating
  2. transcreation
  3. transcreations
  4. transcribability
  5. transcribable
  6. transcribble
  7. transcribbler
  8. transcribblers
  9. transcribe
  10. transcribed
  11. transcriber

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