transcribbler

English

Etymology

Blend of transcriber +‎ scribbler

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹænˈskɹɪbələ(ɹ)/, /tɹænˈskɹɪblə(ɹ)/, /tɹɑːnˈskɹɪbələ(ɹ)/, /tɹɑːnˈskɹɪblə(ɹ)/

Noun

transcribbler (plural transcribblers)

1. (derogatory, dated, rare) A poor transcriber.
   • December 11, 1746, Thomas Gray, letter to Dr. Wharton

     He [Aristotle] has suffered vastly from the transcribblers, as all authors of great brevity necessarily must.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “transcribbler”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)