English

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Etymology

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Blend of transcriber +‎ scribbler

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)