drabble

¹ American  

[drab-uhl] / ˈdræb əl /

verb (used with or without object)

drabbled, drabbling

1. to draggle; make or become wet and dirty.

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Drabble ² American  

[drab-uhl] / ˈdræb əl /

noun

1. Dame Margaret, born 1939, English novelist, short-story writer, and biographer (sister ofA. S. Byatt ).

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Drabble ¹ British  

/ ˈdræbəl /

noun

1. Dame Margaret. born 1939, British novelist and editor. Her novels include The Needle's Eye (1972), The Radiant Way (1987), and The Seven Sisters (2002). She edited the 1985 edition of the Oxford Companion to Literature

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drabble ² British  

/ ˈdræbəl /

verb

1. to make or become wet or dirty

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Etymology

Origin of drabble

1350–1400; Middle English drabelen < Middle Low German drabbeln to wade in liquid mud, bespatter, equivalent to drabbe liquid mud + -eln frequentative v. suffix; drab ², draff

Example Sentences

Mark and Melissa Drabble restored and borrowed as much as they could and believe this cut the cost of their big day from about £30,000 to £6,500.

From BBC

Mr Drabble said: "You don't need money for the dream wedding."

From BBC

Mrs Drabble said she saved money on a wedding bouquet by getting a friend to make one from paper flowers, rather than fresh ones.

From BBC

“It’s not too much to claim,” the author Margaret Drabble was quoted as saying in Ms. Goodings’s memoir, “that Virago Modern Classics changed the course of English literary history.”

From New York Times

Thank you so much for keeping “Marmaduke,” “Bliss,” “Speed Bump,” “Half Full,” “Zits,” “Tundra,” “Drabble,” “Mutts,” “Peanuts,” “Dennis the Menace” and “Family Circus.”

From Los Angeles Times