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UK
/dˈæblɐ/
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NOUN
- any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling
- an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
How To Use dabbler In A Sentence
- Perhaps tools like moviolas might have more efficiently weeded out the dabblers - it's hard to say since moviolas were part of a more elitist type of technology and denied many an opportunity.
- Gadwalls forage mainly while swimming, either taking items from the surface or dabbling in shallow water, or diving, which they are more likely to do than most other dabblers.
- 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
- He was the son of Silken Thomas and as a result of being educated in Italy he came to be recognised as a dabbler in the occult arts.
- This isn't surprising when even the groups he does encounter, such as the peace activists, also seem to see themselves as dabblers and eccentrics rather than as committed individuals.
- Vida was a known dabbler in the black arts, but also a procuress for Mr. Prince.
- 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nonexistent island countries, to university dabbler in more-or-less realistic short stories to twentysomething unpublished novelist, I became more and more interested in the interactive nature of fiction. Mohsin Hamid on writing The Reluctant Fundamentalist
- He's not a dedicated musician, just a dabbler.
- 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
- 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?