Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To make or become wet and soiled by dragging; draggle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Ragged and dirty people collectively; rabble.
- To draggle; make dirty, as by dragging in mud and water; wet and befoul: as, to
drabble a gown or a cloak. - To fish for barbels with a rod and a long line passed through a piece of lead.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To fish with a long line and rod.
- transitive verb To draggle; to wet and befoul by draggling; as, to
drabble a gown or cloak.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To wet or dirty, especially by
dragging throughmud . - verb intransitive To
fish with a long line and rod. - noun A fictional story, typically in
fanfiction , that is exactly 100 words long. - noun A fictional story, typically in
fanfiction , only a few hundred words long.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The lovely jeprdyfrndly challenged me to write an entire one shot in drabble format.
A Couple of Squees amberfocus 2009
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Well, if a drabble is 100 words, and a dribble is 50 words, then how about we say Hint Fiction cannot be anything more than 25 words.
Hint Fiction: When Flash Fiction Becomes Just Too Flashy 2009
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A drabble is an extremely short work of fiction exactly one hundred words in length, although the term is often misused to indicate a short [...]
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The above drabble is a sequel to my "Gonna Fly Now" drabble, which I wrote almost four years ago and is set during "Rocky II."
Drabble: "Take You Back" BTVS--Rocky Balboa Crossover trinfaneb 2008
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A drabble is an extremely short work of fiction exactly one hundred words in length, although the term is often misused to indicate a short story of less than 1000 words.
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The purpose of the drabble is brevity and to test the author’s ability to express interesting and meaningful ideas in an extremely confined space.
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A drabble is a story of exactly 100 words that is presented on Norm Sherman’s fiction podcast, The Drabblecast.
What the Heck is a Drabble Anyway? | Living the Liminal 2008
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A drabble is a story of exactly 100 words that is presented on Norm Sherman’s fiction podcast, The Drabblecast.
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A drabble is a story of exactly 100 words that is presented on Norm Sherman’s fiction podcast, The Drabblecast.
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Each episode contains a longer piece, a 100-word drabble, and a 100-character twitterfic.
SFF Podcasts ken_schneyer 2010
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