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drabble
1[ drab-uhl ]
verb (used with or without object)
- to draggle; make or become wet and dirty.
Drabble
2[ drab-uhl ]
noun
- Dame Margaret, born 1939, English novelist, short-story writer, and biographer (sister of A. S. Byatt ).
drabble
1/ ˈdræbəl /
verb
- to make or become wet or dirty
Drabble
2/ ˈdræbəl /
noun
- DrabbleDame Margaret1939FBritishWRITING: novelistWRITING: editor Dame Margaret. born 1939, British novelist and editor. Her novels include The Needle's Eye (1972), The Radiant Way (1987), and The Seven Sisters (2002). She edited the 1985 edition of the Oxford Companion to Literature
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Example Sentences
Margaret Drabble's new memoir, The Pattern in the Carpet , has just been published.
The novelist and critic, Margaret Drabble rescues Bennett this week from the worst of the charges against him.
Miss Darrell had once begged very humbly that her cook Parker might take a lesson from her, but Mrs. Drabble refused point-blank.
There was a drabble of dead leaves on the sidewalk which was of wood, and on the roadway which was of macadam and stiff mud.
There was a wall between Cleg and the Drabble, a wall with a place for your toes.
After that the Drabble, an it liked him, might steal all the collars in the Pleasance.
The Drabble had a reason, or at least an excuse, for being on the spot.
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