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verb

Dabble v. t. (past & past part. dabbled; pres. part. dabbling) To wet by little dips or strokes; to spatter; to sprinkle; to moisten; to wet. "Bright hair dabbled in blood."

Dabble v. i.

To play in water, as with the hands; to paddle or splash in mud or water. "Where the duck dabbles 'mid the rustling sedge."

To work in slight or superficial manner; to do in a small way; to tamper; to meddle. "Dabbling here and there with the text." "During the first year at Dumfries, Burns for the first time began to dabble in politics."

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Etymology of 'Dabble'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dabble" Quotes from Famous Books

... moments later and the kindly brightness of the new-risen sun was glinting between tree-trunks, the bush began to breathe naturally, and I was off at a trot for my morning dabble in the surf. ...

— The Record of Nicholas Freydon - An Autobiography • A. J. (Alec John) Dawson

... from the mouths of stone men To spread at ease under the sky In granite-lipped basins, Where iris dabble their feet And rustle to a passing wind, The water fills the garden with its rushing, In the midst of the ...

— Sword Blades and Poppy Seed • Amy Lowell

... that swept athwart them like a sword, Making the blood strain back from their blanched faces Into their quivering hearts, with unknown dread, As that accuser pointed to the shape Before his feet. "Dogs, will ye lap his blood Before ye die? Make haste; for it grows cold! Ye will not, will not even dabble your hands In that red puddle of flesh, what? Are ye Spaniards? Come, come, I'll look at you, perchance there's one That's but a demi-devil and holds you back." And with the word Drake stepped among their ...

— Collected Poems - Volume One (of 2) • Alfred Noyes

... Kettle. This mystery game has gone on long enough, and you've got to be put on the ground floor, like the rest of us. Did you ever dabble ...

— A Master of Fortune • Cutcliffe Hyne

... of one of the native songs, "To-night they love who never loved before; to-night let him who loves love all the more." The words have unconsciously arranged themselves, even in English, as poetry; those who know Thomas Gowles best, best know how unlikely it is that he would willingly dabble in the worldly art of verse-fashioning. Think of my reflections with a painful, shameful, and, above all, undeserved death before me, while all the fragrant air was ringing with lascivious merriment. My impression is that, as all the sins of the year were, in their opinion, ...

— In the Wrong Paradise • Andrew Lang

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