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Grammar : Verb
Spell : dab-uhl
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdæb əl



Definition of dabbling

Origin :
  • 1550s, probably a frequentative of dab. Original meaning was "wet by splashing;" modern figurative sense of "do superficially" first recorded 1620s. Related: Dabbled; dabbling. An Ellen Dablewife is in the Lancashire Inquests from 1336.
  • verb play at; tinker
Example sentences :
  • She was not a little suspected of dabbling in other forbidden things.
  • Extract from : « The Golden Dog » by William Kirby
  • And instead of dabbling in religion for myself I put myself in its hands.
  • Extract from : « Natural Law in the Spiritual World » by Henry Drummond
  • That's rather hard on the rest of us who are dabbling in politics.
  • Extract from : « A Man of Two Countries » by Alice Harriman
  • Raymond must give up his dabbling, and set to work like a man.
  • Extract from : « The Boy Artist. » by F.M. S.
  • As a matter of fact, it was no foot at all he was dabbling, but only a maimed stump.
  • Extract from : « Stories of the Ships » by Lewis R. Freeman
  • Dabbling in sorcery is in some degree the province of the female Gypsy.
  • Extract from : « The Spirit Land » by Samuel B. (Samuel Bulfinch) Emmons
  • One story had it that "dabbling in magic" had lost him his position in the Church.
  • Extract from : « The Bright Messenger » by Algernon Blackwood
  • I knew just how they did feel inside while they were dabbling their toes in the water.
  • Extract from : « The Story of Opal » by Opal Whiteley
  • While I was dabbling my toes, my legs did have longings to go in wading, but I went not in.
  • Extract from : « The Story of Opal » by Opal Whiteley
  • And vowed they saw his ghost, which came from dabbling in psychology.
  • Extract from : « Mr. Punch on the Continong » by Various

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