Meaning of dabblement | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The process or act of dabbling; A superficial investigation or participation.
   countable, uncountable
2. A somewhat wet concentration of mud, paint, water, gore, etc.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“But let us leave these dabblements in acoustics, and come on to a second waterfall, which is, to my mind, as beautiful as the first is magnificent.”

“Even the other day, at the Patencheru Camp, the hon. Minister for Co-operation speaking on the co-operative movement said that he was feeling sorry that politics dabbled with the co-operative movement and that the co-operative movement is not doing proper work on account of this political dabblement.”

“Though he seldom in his final years even hinted at bebop, Miles's last years were dominated by the blues, a recognition that still hasn't filtered through his dabblement with pop and hip-hop.”

“The bustling spirit which animated Mrs. Mulligan was this day particularly restless, as if to heighten the effect of her strange visitor's inertia; scouring and dusting were carried on with might and main; half the kitchen was submerged, amphibious Katy floating in the dabblement, and never relaxing but to give her guest a stare, which would have frightened any animal but a German Frau.”

“Already victor, whom on slippery ground, Drench'd with the blood of victims newly slain, He stumbled, luckless man; his footing lost, Prone on the turf amid the dabblement Of mud and gore he fell;”

“I returned, near broken-down utterly, at the set time; and alas, was met by a foul dabblement of paint oozing downstairs; the painters had proved treacherous to her; time could not be kept!”

“On one occasion, not long ago, when the sport took place in Jedburgh, the contending parties, after a struggle of two hours in the streets, transferred the contention to the bed of the river Jed, and there fought it out amidst a scene of fearful splash and dabblement, to the infinite amusement of the multitude, looking on from the bridge.”

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