| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb drabble.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (drabble) | 1. To draggle; to wet and befoul by draggling; as, to drabble a gown or cloak.[Websters]. 2. To fish with a long line and rod; as, to drabble for barbels.[Websters]. 3. Base verb from the following inflections: drabbling, drabbled, drabbles, drabbler, drabblers, drabblingly and drabbledly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "DRABBLING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DRABBLING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Adjective] Drawing in mud or water; angling for barbels.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of drabble. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: drabble
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Drabble (comic) | Drabble is a comic strip by Kevin Fagan, launched in 1979. It focuses on the family life of the Drabble family. (references) | ||
| Phil Drabble | Phil Drabble OBE (born May 13, 1914) was a countryman, author and television presenter. Raised in the Black Country, he later lived in - and wrote mostly about - the countryside of north Worcestershire and at Abbots Bromley in south Staffordshire, where he purchased a piece of ancient woodland, a remnant of the Forest of Needwood, where he created the 90 acre (360,000 m²) Goat Lodge nature reserve. (references) | ||
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Topics by Level of Interest: drabble | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Drabble | 19 | Drabble | 19 | |
| Phil Drabble | 12 | Drabble (comic) | 12 | |
| Drabble (comic) | 12 | Margaret Drabble | 10 | |
| Margaret Drabble | 10 | Phil Drabble | 12 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
