Dabble vs Wade - What's the difference?
dabble | wade |
To partially wet (something) by splashing or dipping; connotes playfulness.
To participate or have an interest in an activity, but in a casual or superficial way.
to walk through water or something that impedes progress.
* Milton
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VIII
to progress with difficulty
* Dryden
* Davenant
to walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading
To enter recklessly.
As a verb dabble
is to partially wet (something) by splashing or dipping; connotes playfulness.As a proper noun wade is
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Verb
(en-verb)- The children sat on the dock and dabbled their feet in the water.
- She's an actress by trade, but has been known to dabble in poetry.
Derived terms
* dabble in * dabblerSee also
* dribblewade
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) wadan'', from (etyl) "to go". Cognates include Latin ''vadere "go, walk; rush" (whence English invade, evade).Verb
(wad)- So eagerly the fiend / With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, / And swims, or sinks, or wades , or creeps, or flies.
- After breakfast the men set out to hunt, while the women went to a large pool of warm water covered with a green scum and filled with billions of tadpoles. They waded in to where the water was about a foot deep and lay down in the mud. They remained there from one to two hours and then returned to the cliff.
- to wade through a dull book
- And wades through fumes, and gropes his way.
- The king's admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties.
- wading swamps and rivers
- to wade into a fight or a debate
