'Dabble' definitions:
Definition of 'dabble'
From: WordNet
verb
Dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid
verb
Play in or as if in water, as of small children [syn: dabble, paddle, splash around]
verb
Work with in an amateurish manner; "She dabbles in astronomy"; "He plays around with investments but he never makes any money" [syn: dabble, smatter, play around]
verb
Bob forward and under so as to feed off the bottom of a body of water; "dabbling ducks"
Definition of 'Dabble'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Dabble'
From: GCIDE
- Dabble \Dab"ble\, v. i.
- 1. To play in water, as with the hands; to paddle or splash in mud or water. [1913 Webster]
- Where the duck dabbles 'mid the rustling sedge. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To work in slight or superficial manner; to do in a small way; to tamper; to meddle. "Dabbling here and there with the text." --Atterbury. [1913 Webster]
- During the first year at Dumfries, Burns for the first time began to dabble in politics. --J. C. Shairp. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dabble'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- asperge,
- be innocent of,
- bedabble,
- bedew,
- beguile the time,
- bespatter,
- besprinkle,
- burn daylight,
- consume time,
- coquet,
- coquet with,
- dally,
- damp,
- dampen,
- dash,
- dew,
- diddle,
- dip,
- doodle,
- douche,
- fiddle,
- fiddle with,
- fiddle-faddle,
- fidget with,
- finger with,
- flirt,
- fool,
- fool around,
- fool with,
- footle,
- fribble,
- fritter away time,
- frivol,
- give up,
- have no idea,
- horse around,
- hose,
- hose down,
- humect,
- humectate,
- humidify,
- idle,
- irrigate,
- jerk off,
- kid around,
- kill time,
- know a little,
- know not,
- know not what,
- know nothing of,
- loiter,
- lose time,
- mess around,
- moisten,
- monkey,
- monkey around,
- not know,
- not rightly know,
- paddle,
- pass,
- pass the time,
- piddle,
- play,
- play around,
- play with,
- potter,
- putter,
- scratch the surface,
- slobber,
- slop,
- slosh,
- smatter,
- sparge,
- spatter,
- splash,
- splatter,
- splotch,
- sponge,
- spot,
- spray,
- sprinkle,
- swash,
- syringe,
- tinker,
- toy,
- toy with,
- trifle,
- trifle with,
- twiddle,
- waste time,
- water,
- wet,
- wet down,
- wonder,
- wonder whether,
- wot not of