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Synonyms for dabbler

Grammar : Noun
Spell : dab-uhl
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdæb əl

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Définition of dabbler

Origin :
  • 1550s, probably a frequentative of dab. Original meaning was "wet by splashing;" modern figurative sense of "do superficially" first recorded 1620s. Related: Dabbled; dabbling. An Ellen Dablewife is in the Lancashire Inquests from 1336.
  • noun amateur
Example sentences :
  • The Irish archbishop, compared to him, appears a dabbler in Romanism.
  • Extract from : « Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 » by Adam Gurowski
  • What's Dabbler to him, or he to Dabbler, that he should weep?
  • Extract from : « The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) » by Charles James Wills
  • He was an encourager of learning and the arts, and a dabbler in science.
  • Extract from : « Old Continental Towns » by Walter M. Gallichan
  • The Controller who bred me was only a dabbler in such things.
  • Extract from : « Field Trip » by Gene Hunter
  • The mother of Æschines, he says, was a kind of ‘wise woman,’ and dabbler in mysteries.
  • Extract from : « Custom and Myth » by Andrew Lang
  • I'm no' a dabbler amang leaf-mould;' and she laughed cheerily.
  • Extract from : « Betty Grier » by Joseph Waugh
  • It is also used in reference to the trifler and dabbler in art and science.
  • Extract from : « The New Gresham Encyclopedia » by Various
  • It is yellowed now, and poor always; for I am but a dabbler at such things.
  • Extract from : « Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, August, 1863, No. 70 » by Various
  • She was little, a very little blue, rather a dabbler in the "ologies," than a real disciple.
  • Extract from : « The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete » by Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
  • There is some odor about a dabbler that makes him especially offensive to all clean high-class men and women.
  • Extract from : « Increasing Personal Efficiency » by Russell H. Conwell

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