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say it: DAB-uhl
dabble is a verb meaning "dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid". It carries 4 recorded senses.
dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid
play in or as if in water, as of small children
work with in an amateurish manner
“She dabbles in astronomy”
“He plays around with investments but he never makes any money”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dabble come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.