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单词 drabble
释义

drabblen.

Etymology: < drabble v.
1. The action or process of drabbling for fish.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > angling > using other methods
drabble1799
sinking and drawing1838
spinning1855
skittering1883
1799 tr. Laboratory (ed. 6) II. x. 269 When you angle for this fish at the bottom, on the drabble.
2. A contemptuous term for drabbled people.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [noun] > the rabble > a rabble
ginga1275
frapaillec1330
rabblea1398
rascal1415
rafflea1450
mardlec1480
rabblement1543
riff-raff1570
rabble rout?1589
scum1597
skim1606
tumult1629
rebel rout1648
mob1688
drabble1789
attroopment1795
scuff1856
shower1936
1789 J. Wolcot Tithe Rencounter x. 1 Some Presbyterian rabble..Or some fierce Methodistic drabble.
3. A wet mass. U.S.
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1892 ‘O. Thanet’ in Scribner's Mag. Aug. 135/1 There was a drabble of dead leaves on the sidewalk.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

drabblev.

/drab(ə)l/
Etymology: Middle English drabelen = Low German (East Frisian) drabbeln to walk or wade about in water or liquid mud, to paddle; to splash, bespatter: compare drabbe thick dirty liquid, mire, drabbig muddy, miry, turbid; also early modern Dutch drabben to run about, tramp about.
1. intransitive. To become wet and dirty by dabbling in, or trailing through, water or mire.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > be or become dirty or soiled with specific kinds of dirt [verb (intransitive)] > be dirty by being trailed in mud
drabblea1400
lag1682
spoil1697
to look (feel) like something the cat has brought in1928
muddy1953
a1400–50 Alexander 232 Diȝt as a Doctour in drabland wedis.
15.. Hye way to Spyttel Hous 116 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. IV. 28 Brechles, bare foted, all stynkyng with dyrt, With M. [= a thousand] of tatters drabblyng to the shyrt.
1589 J. Sparke in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 542 Being put vpon a hooke drabling in the water.
1708 W. King Art of Love iv. 43 Who shall all this Rabble meet, But Gnossy, drabling in the Street.
1807 Salmagundi 7 Mar. 93 The poor fellows who had to drabble through the..mire.
2. transitive. To make wet and dirty by contact with muddy water or mire. Also in extended use.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > dirty or soil with specific kinds of dirt [verb (transitive)] > dirty with mud > dirty by trailing in mud
bedaga1300
belaga1300
bedrabblec1440
drabblec1440
dag1484
draggle1513
daggle1530
bedaggle1580
bedabble1600
bedraggle1727
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 129/2 Drabelyn, paludo.
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 6 Spreading their drabled sailes..abroad a drying.
1792 Trans. Soc. Arts 10 47 Heavy showers of rain..which has drabbled the Corn.
1867 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2nd Ser. 3 ii. 529 Clip off the down at the tail to prevent their being drabbled.
1903 R. Kipling Five Nations vii Across the sad valleys all drabbled with rain.
1923 Chambers's Jrnl. 89/2 Thews who..drabbled graybeards in their blood.
3. Angling. (intransitive) To fish for barbel, etc. with a rod and a line threaded through a leaden bullet so that the hook may be trailed along the bottom.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (intransitive)] > fish with line > with weighted line
to fish (lie) on or upon the grabble1726
drabble1799
to lay on1934
1799 tr. Laboratory (ed. 6) II. x. 272 The right method of drabbling, as it is termed..for gudgeons.

Derivatives

ˈdrabbled adj. wet with dirty water, or with dragging in the mire.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [adjective] > muddy > dirty by trailing in mud
drabbledc1440
dagged1484
draggled1513
daggling1562
daggle-tailed1573
daggled1607
draggle-tailed1654
draggle-tail1707
daggled-tail1711
bedraggled1824
bedabbled1862
traipsed1884
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 129/2 Draplyd [v.r. drablyd], paludosus.
1599Drabbled [see sense 2].
ˈdrabbling n. and adj.
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a1400-50Drabland [see sense 1].
drabble-tail n. a slattern, draggle-tail.
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a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Drabble-tail, a slattern, who allows her garments to trail after her in the dirt.
drabble-tailed adj.
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1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Drabbl'd, Drabble-tailed, dirtied.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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