单词 | drabble |
释义 | drabblen. 1. The action or process of drabbling for fish. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. 1. intransitive. To become wet and dirty by dabbling in, or trailing through, water or mire. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ a1400-50Drabland [see sense 1]. drabble-tail n. a slattern, draggle-tail. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). < n.1789v.a1400 |
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