drabble

present singular third person drabbles · participle present drabbling · participle past drabbled · past drabbled

1. transitiveTo wet or dirty, especially by dragging through mud.

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   That which eſpecialleſt nouriſht the moſt prime pleaſure in me, was after a ſtorme when they were driuen inſwarmes, and lay close peſtred together as thicke as they could packe; the next day following, if it were faire, they would cloud the whole skie with canuas, by ſpreading their drabled ſailes in the full clue abroad a drying, and make a brauer ſhew with them, then ſo many banners and ſtreamers diſplayed againſt the Sunne on a mountaine top.

   1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, pages 5–6

2. intransitiveTo fish with a long line and rod.

   to drabble for barbels

plural drabbles

1. A short fictional story, typically in fan fiction, sometimes exactly 100 words long.

   Synonyms: flash fiction, flashfic, microfiction, short short story, spamfic, sudden fiction

plural Drabbles

1. A surname from Old English.