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verb (used without object)
1.
to play and splash in or as if in water, especially with the hands.
2.
to work at anything in an irregular or superficial manner: to dabble in literature.
3.
(of a duck) to feed on shallow-water vegetation with rapid, splashing movements of the bill.
verb (used with object)
4.
to wet slightly in or with a liquid; splash; spatter.
5.
Chiefly South Midland U.S. to wash or rinse off lightly.
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Dabble
is one of our favorite verbs.
So is peculate. Does it mean:
| to steal or take dishonestly (money, esp. public funds, or property entrusted to one's care); embezzle. |
| to run away hurriedly; flee. |
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dabble
1550s, frequentative of dab. Original meaning was "wet by splashing;" modern fig. sense first recorded 1625.
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