Meaning

3 senses

  1. A spattering or sprinkling of a liquid.

  2. An act of splashing in soft mud, water, etc.

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  3. An act of participation in an activity in a casual or superficial way.

Examples

15 sentences

  1. Tom dabbles in the stock market.

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  2. Tom dabbled in magic.

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  3. I dabble in the culinary arts.

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  4. Tom dabbled in cocaine in his youth.

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  5. Tom has dabbled in the dark arts.

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Translations

2 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
act of splashing in soft mud, water, etc.:

Origin

From earlier dable, equivalent to dab + -le (frequentative suffix), possibly from Middle D

From earlier dable, equivalent to dab + -le (frequentative suffix), possibly from Middle Dutch dabbelen (“to pinch; knead; to fumble; to dabble”); cognate with Icelandic dafla (“to dabble”).

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Forms

plural: dabbles
Singulardabble
Pluraldabbles

regular

Word family

1 related words
Deriveddouble dabble

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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