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Dabble vs Pabble - What's the difference?

dabble | pabble |

As verbs the difference between dabble and pabble

is that dabble is to partially wet (something) by splashing or dipping; connotes playfulness while pabble is to make the sound like liquid or porridge makes when bubbling under heat, on a stove.

dabble

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To partially wet (something) by splashing or dipping; connotes playfulness.
    • The children sat on the dock and dabbled their feet in the water.
  • To participate or have an interest in an activity, but in a casual or superficial way.
    • She's an actress by trade, but has been known to dabble in poetry.

    Derived terms

    * dabble in * dabbler

    See also

    * dribble

    pabble

    English

    Verb

  • To make the sound like liquid or porridge makes when bubbling under heat, on a stove.
  • *1832. J. Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XXXI. 879:
    • The hissing, and the fizzing, and the pabbling of the great pan in which the basted trouts are writhing.
  • *1834. I Ibid. XXXV. 789:
  • *:We hear them pabbling in the pan.

    • References

    *OED