Pabbles vs Dabbles - What's the difference?
pabbles | dabbles |
(pabble)
To make the sound like liquid or porridge makes when bubbling under heat, on a stove.
*1832. J. Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XXXI. 879:
*1834. I Ibid. XXXV. 789:
*:We hear them pabbling in the pan.
(dabble)
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.
As verbs the difference between pabbles and dabbles
is that pabbles is (pabble) while dabbles is (dabble).pabbles
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(head)pabble
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- The hissing, and the fizzing, and the pabbling of the great pan in which the basted trouts are writhing.
References
*OEDdabbles
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(head)Anagrams
*dabble
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(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.