单词 | dibble-dabble |
释义 | dibble-dabblen. colloquial or dialect. literal. An irregular course of dabbling or splashing; figurative rubbish; also, uproar with violence. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [noun] > a scene or place of confusion > noisy dibble-dabblea1563 coil1582 Babeldom1824 a1563 J. Bale King Johan (1969) i. 159 They are but dyble dable. I marvell ye can abyd suche byble bable. 1767 Countess Cowper in M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. I. 99 It turned out such a dibble-dabble... We have had March weather before March came. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Dibble-dabble, uproar, accompanied with violence. 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Dibble-dabble, rubbish. North. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.a1563 |
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