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HOME | Definition of dabbler (DABBLER, Dabbler)


    Dabbler \Dab"bler\ (d[a^]b"bl[~e]r), n.
    1. One who dabbles.
    [1913 Webster]

    2. One who dips slightly into anything; a superficial
    meddler. "our dabblers in politics." --Swift.
    [1913 Webster]

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48


    dabbler
    n 1: an amateur who engages in an activity without serious
    intentions and who pretends to have knowledge [syn: dilettante,
    sciolist]
    2: any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending
    and dabbling [syn: dabbling duck] [ant: diving duck]

    WordNet (r) 2.0


    36 Moby Thesaurus words for "dabbler":
    Sunday painter, abecedarian, amateur, coquet, criticaster, dabster,
    dallier, dilettante, dunce, flirt, fool, fribble, grammaticaster,
    greenhorn, greeny, half scholar, ignoramus, illiterate, illiterati,
    know-nothing, lowbrow, middlebrow, no scholar, nonprofessional,
    philologaster, philosophaster, piddler, potterer, puddinghead,
    putterer, sciolist, smatterer, tenderfoot, trifler, tyro,
    unintelligentsia

    Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0




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