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drabble

1 American  
[drab-uhl] / ˈdræb əl /

verb (used with or without object)

drabbled, drabbling

  1. to draggle; make or become wet and dirty.

Drabble 2 American  
[drab-uhl] / ˈdræb əl /

noun

  1. Dame Margaret, born 1939, English novelist, short-story writer, and biographer (sister ofA. S. Byatt ).

Drabble 1 British  
/ ˈdræbəl /

noun

  1. 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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drabble 2 British  
/ ˈdræbəl /

verb

  1. to make or become wet or dirty

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Etymology

Origin of drabble

1350–1400; Middle English drabelen < Middle Low German drabbeln to wade in liquid mud, bespatter, equivalent to drabbe liquid mud + -eln frequentative v. suffix; drab 2, draff

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