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Dribbed vs Drabbed - What's the difference?

dribbed | drabbed |

As verbs the difference between dribbed and drabbed

is that dribbed is (drib) while drabbed is (drab).

dribbed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (drib)

    • drib

    English

    Etymology 1

    From dialectal English drib (compare also drub), a variant from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Verb

    (dribb)
  • To cut off; chop off.
  • To cut off little by little; cheat by small and reiterated tricks; purloin.
  • To entice step by step.
  • * Dryden
    • With daily lies she dribs thee into cost.
  • To appropriate unlawfully; to embezzle.
  • * Dryden
    • He who drives their bargain dribs a part.
  • (archery) To shoot directly at short range.
  • (archery) To shoot at a mark at short range.
  • (archery) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.
    • (Sir Philip Sidney)
  • To beat; thrash; drub.
  • To scold.
  • To strike another player's marble when playing from the trigger.

    • Etymology 2

    From a variant of drip.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A drop.
    • (Jonathan Swift)

    Anagrams

    *

    drabbed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (drab)

    • drab

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl), meaning "color of undyed cloth", from (etyl) ).Xavier Delamarre, ''Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise : une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental , s.v. "drappo" (Paris: Errance, 2001).

    Adjective

    (drabber)
  • Dull, uninteresting, particularly of colour.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=November 3 , author=David Ornstein , title=Macc Tel-Aviv 1 - 2 Stoke , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=In a drab first half, Ryan Shotton's drive was deflected on to a post and Jon Walters twice went close.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fabric, usually of thick wool or cotton, having a drab colour.
  • The colour of this fabric; a dun, dull grey, or or dull brownish yellow.
  • A wooden box, used in saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
    • Quotations
    * (English Citations of "drab")
    Synonyms
    * (fabric) (l)
    Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    Origin uncertain; probably compare Irish drabog, Gaelic .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated) A dirty or untidy woman; a slattern.
  • *
    • Old provincial society had [...] its brilliant young professional dandies who ended by living up an entry with a drab and six children for their establishment [...].
  • * 1956 , (John Creasey), Gideon's Week :
    • The doss house emptied during the day; from ten o'clock until five or six in the evening, there was no one there except Mulliver, a drab who did some of the cleaning for him, and occasional visitors.
  • (dated) A promiscuous woman, a slut; a prostitute.
  • * 1957 , (Frank Swinnerton), The Woman from Sicily :
    • Ineffable sarcasm underlined the word 'bride', suggesting that Mrs Mudge must be a drab who had married for respectability.
    (Shakespeare)
  • A box used in a saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
    • Synonyms
    * (slut) See * (prostitute) See

    Verb

    (drabb)
  • (obsolete) To consort with prostitutes.
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    • Anagrams

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