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Definition of Dabbing
1. dab [v] - See also: dab
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dabbing
Literary usage of Dabbing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"DABBLE, to keep on dabbing. (E.) The frequentative of da with the usual suffixed -le.
The word is used by Drayton, ..."
2. Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Helps (1871)
"... they would make more use of greys and other neutral tints, instead of dabbing
on so ruthlessly the strongest positives in colour! ..."
3. Fish: Their Habits and Haunts and the Methods of Catching Them, Together by Lorenzo Prouty (1883)
"One will learn more cf fly-making in an hour by the eye than in a twelvemonths
by the understanding. TROUT-FISHING BY dabbing. For this method of fishing, ..."
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