Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who dabbles or plays in water, or as in water.
- noun One who dabbles in or dips slightly into some pursuit, business, or study; a superficial worker or thinker.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who dabbles.
- noun One who dips slightly into anything; a superficial meddler.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun one who
dabbles
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
- noun any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling
Etymologies
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Examples
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She suggests that the growth offered by buy-to-let property has resulted in "dabbler" landlords who, facing an economic downturn, are harassing tenants and seem unaware that evicting renters without notice can be acrime.
Is the recession fuelling a rise in unlawful evictions? 2010
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I'm just 'dabbler' in the soap world, but I love seeing you link and talk about all the wonderful products.
Using 3-D Molds - Unmolding Anne-Marie 2007
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Although Ms. Amato, 28, was a "dabbler" cook, her husband's idea of a fine meal was a fried bologna sandwich, she says.
Cutting Costs at Culinary School Dawn Fallik 2009
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The knowledgeable Columbia University alum and erstwhile "dabbler" estimated that about 30
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Suffice it to say that CBS needs to get going with the premium media delivery if wants to transition from "dabbler" status to something with a vested interest in tapping the social media space to full (est) effect.
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There's the jazz student, the angry punk, the rock purist, the classical dabbler, the pop traditionalist, and the roots traveller.
Shawn Amos: PLAY > SKIP: New Music for Nov. 2 Shawn Amos 2010
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James Franco, actor and dabbler extraordinaire, will appear with "My Own Private River," a fan's tribute to actor River Phoenix that repurposes footage shot for and during Gus Van Sant's 1991 film "My Own Private Idaho."
A Wide World of Voices Steve Dollar 2012
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As I evolved as a writer, from navel-high producer of galactic space operas to fuzz-sprouting fantasist imagining nonexistent island countries, to university dabbler in more-or-less realistic short stories to twentysomething unpublished novelist, I became more and more interested in the interactive nature of fiction.
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Weatherbee was a clerk who had known naught but clerking all his life; Cuthfert was a master of arts, a dabbler in oils, and had written not a little.
In a Far Country 2010
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There's the jazz student, the angry punk, the rock purist, the classical dabbler, the pop traditionalist, and the roots traveller.
Shawn Amos: PLAY > SKIP: New Music for Nov. 2 Shawn Amos 2010
kbbwordie commented on the word dabbler
basically a big fat wanna-be
January 15, 2009