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Part of Speech: Noun

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dabble

Part of Speech: verb

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1. To play in water, as with the hands; to paddle or splash in mud or water.

2. To work in slight or superficial manner; to do in a small way; to tamper; to meddle.

Part of Speech: verb transitive

1. To wet by little dips or strokes; to spatter; to sprinkle; to moisten; to wet.

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He shuddered the third time when he saw Wetzel pick up Silvertip's beautiful white eagle plume, dabble it in a pool of blood, and stick it in the bark of a tree. - "The Spirit of the Border A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley", Zane Grey.
No; just completed the high school; then, not being very strong, mother thought it best not to send me to the University; but she lets me dabble a little in painting and in music. - "Dorian", Nephi Anderson.
Then, when the long evenings came, with Morcombe sitting in the games study, his face flushed with the glow of the leaping fire, talking of Keats and Shelley, himself a poem, Gordon used to wonder how he could ever have wished to dabble in ugly things, out of his cowardice to face the truth. - "The Loom of Youth", Alec Waugh.

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