How to pronounce“dabble”in English
verbdefinitely be some car videos in 2018 that do see the light of day that's a guarantee we got a pretty good playlist name for it too something else we
dabbled with in 2017 was the whole idea of custom merch you know a limited edition design here and there and that's fun but i think in 2018
that beast will be entirely different i don't want to give away too much but i think you get the idea so in 2017 the channel passed 5 million subscribers
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Definitions of “dabble”
To make slightly wet or soiled by spattering or sprinkling a liquid (such as water, mud, or paint) on it; to bedabble.
“The Itelians […] reſpectleſſe of gentry, of few words, for they barrell up commonly more then they can broach, and ſo may be ſaid to be like a great bottle with a narrow necke; yet they are moſt cunning and circumſpect in negotiating, ſpecially when they have bin tampering with the Vine or the hop, and are dabbled a little with their liquor.”
To cause splashing by moving a body part like a bill or limb in soft mud, water, etc., often playfully; to play in shallow water; to paddle.
“The children sat on the dock and dabbled their feet in the water.”
A spattering or sprinkling of a liquid.
“Sir W. Rose has works that bear painful evidence of failing health; indeed, his group of the Duc et Duchesse d'Aumale (705), with the Prince de Condé and the Duc de Guise, is quite unfinished and even blotted. The face of the Duke is refined, but weak; the colour is pale, and the background only a dabble of unarranged and undrilled touches.”
An act of splashing in soft mud, water, etc.
“Happily, however, he [the gnat] is born a swimmer and can take his pleasure in his native element, poising himself near its surface head downwards, tail upwards. Why chooses he this strange position? Just for the same reason that we rather prefer, when taking a dabble in the waves, to have our heads above water, for the convenience, namely, of receiving a due supply of air, which the little swimmer in question sucks in through a sort of tube in his tail.”
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