Dabbler

Definitions: Dabbler

Dabbler

Noun

1. An amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge.

2. Any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling.

Date "dabbler" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonyms: Dabbler

Synonyms: dabbling duck (n), dilettante (n), sciolist (n). (additional references)

Antonym: diving duck (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Ignoramus	Dilettante, sciolist, smatterer, dabbler, half scholar; charlatan; wiseacre.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Dabbler

English words defined with "dabbler": Poetaster. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I'm too serious to be a dilettante and too much a dabbler to be a professional. (Dolce vita, La; writing credit: Federico Fellini; Ennio Flaiano)
Movie/TV Titles	Professor Dabbler (1915)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Creating Computer Art: Using Dabbler (reference) Dabbler (reference) Dabbler & the Purple Cup (reference) Lily Robbins, M.D. (Medical Dabbler) (Young Women of Faith: Lily Series, No. 2) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Dabbler" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dabbler" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	7	133,076

Expression using "dabbler": dabbler in politics. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "dabbler"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		amateur (amateur, dilettante, fancier). (various references)

Albanian		diletant (amateur, dilettante), amator (amateur, amateurish, buff, dilettante, enthusiast, fancier, lover, outsider). (various references)

Arabic		‏هاو (amateur, amateurish, collector, dabbling, devotee, fan, non-professional, unprofessional), ‏الهاوي (amateur, dabster, dilettante). (various references)

Bulgarian		дилетант (amateur, dilettante, sciolist). (various references)

Chinese		半�"�醋 (smatterer), 半吊子 (smatterer, tactless and impulsive person), 戏水者. (various references)

Czech		amatér (amateur). (various references)

Danish		amatør (amateur, dilettante, fancier). (various references)

Dutch		knutselaar (amateur, dilettante, fancier), dilettant (amateur, dilettante, fancier), amateur (amateur, dilettante, fancier). (various references)

Esperanto		diletanto (dilettante). (various references)

Finnish		kannunvalaja (dabbler in politics). (various references)

French		dilettante, amateur (dabster). (various references)

German		Dilettant (amateur, dilettante). (various references)

Greek		απρόσεκτοσ (careless, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, incautious, mindless, negligent, perfunctory, reckless, regardless, slap dash, thoughtless, unguarded, unmindful, unwary), αδέξιοσ (awkward, clownish, clumsy, gauche, heavy-handed, inapt, loutish, lubberly, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, skilless, slouch, squirt, unapt, ungainly, unhandy, unskillful). (various references)

Hungarian		kontár (amateurish, botch, bungler, cobbler, duffer, scamper, spoiler, tinker, to slubber, unworkmanlike). (various references)

Indonesian		amatir (amateur). (various references)

Italian		dilettante (amateur, dilettante, fancier). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�"�噛じり (a dabbler, a dilettante, a smattering, dip into, superficial knowledge). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		なまかじり (a dabbler, a dilettante, a smattering, dip into, superficial knowledge). (various references)

Korean		장난하�" 사람. (various references)

Pig Latin		abblerday.(various references)

Portuguese		trapalhão (bumbling, bungler, clumsy), amador (amateur, dabster, dilettante, fancier, lover, unprofessional). (various references)

Romanian		amator (amateur, dilettante, fancier, lover). (various references)

Russian		любитель (aficionado, amateur, dilettante, fancier, lover). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		diletant (dilettante), šeprtlja (bungler, do nothing). (various references)

Spanish		aficionado (amateur, amateurish, bushleague, dilettante, fan, fancier, fond, keen, lover, non-professional, partial). (various references)

Swedish		dilettant (dilettante), klåpare (blunderer, botcher, bungler, dub, fumbler, muff, slob), fuskare (botcher, cheater, crib, tinker). (various references)

Turkish		amatör (amateur, dilettante, fancier, hobbyist). (various references)

Ukranian		аматор (admirer, amateur), любитель (admirer, amateur, fancier, lover), дилетант (amateur, dilettante, smatterer). (various references)

Vietnamese		người vầy, người mò, người l� m theo kiểu t� i tử, người học đòi. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "dabbler": dabblers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Dabbler" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dabla, Dablam, dable, dablen, dabler, dablo, Debble, Debler, Dobbelaere, dobber, dobler, dubbier, Dubler. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "dabbler" (pronounced 'Dab"bler'): Ambler, assembler, Brabbler, Cabbler, Cobbler, Dibbler, Dissembler, Drabbler, Dribbler, Enfeebler, Ennobler, Fabler, Fribbler, fumbler, gambler, Garbler, gobbler, grumbler, Jumbler, Knobbler, Marbler, Mumbler, Nibbler, Nobbler, Quibbler, Rambler, Resembler, Rumbler, Scambler, scrambler, Squabbler, Stabler, stumbler, Tabler, Transcribbler, troubler, tumbler, Warbler. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: drabble, rabbled.
	Words within the letters "a-b-b-d-e-l-r"
	-1 letter: balder, barbed, barbel, blared, dabber, dabble, rabble.
	-2 letters: abler, alder, ardeb, babel, baled, baler, barbe, barde, bared, beard, blade, blare, blear, bread, debar, lader.
	-3 letters: abbe, abed, able, babe, bade, bald, bale, barb, bard, bare, bead, bear, blab, blae, bleb, bled, brad, brae, bred, dale, darb, dare, deal, dear, drab, earl, lade, lard, lead, lear, rale, read, real.
	-4 letters: alb, ale, arb, are, bad, bal, bar, bed, bel, bra, dab, dal, deb, del, ear, ebb, eld, era, lab, lad, lar, lea, led, rad, reb, red.
	-5 letters: ab, ad, ae, al, ar, ba, be, de, ed, el, er, la, re.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-b-d-e-l-r"
	+1 letter: brabbled, brambled, dabblers, drabbled, drabbles, grabbled.
	+2 letters: abradable, belabored, blabbered, bluebeard, clabbered, scrabbled, slabbered.
	+3 letters: adsorbable, belaboured, bluebeards, bridgeable, landlubber.
	+4 letters: billboarded, blackbirded, blackbirder, boatbuilder, describable, landlubbers, redoubtable, redoubtably.
	+5 letters: blackbirders, boatbuilders, hardscrabble, landlubberly, unbridgeable.
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