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Drabble
Definitions
- 1 A surname from Old English.
- 1 A short fictional story, typically in fan fiction, sometimes exactly 100 words long.
- 1 To wet or dirty, especially by dragging through mud. transitive
"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."
- 2 To fish with a long line and rod. intransitive
"to drabble for barbels"
Etymology
From Middle English drabelan.
From a game in Monty Python's Big Red Book in which the first player to write a novel wins; possibly derived in turn from the surname of the author Margaret Drabble.
Perhaps a diminutive of the Old English personal name Drabba, or related to drab, hence a nickname for an untidy person.
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