Drabble

//ˈdɹæbəl// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Old English.
Noun
  1. 1
    A short fictional story, typically in fan fiction, sometimes exactly 100 words long.
Verb
  1. 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. 2
    To fish with a long line and rod. intransitive

    "to drabble for barbels"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English drabelan.

Etymology 2

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.

Etymology 3

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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