Dabble

Definition of dabble:

part of speech: verb

To play in water with hands or feet: to do anything in a trifling way.

part of speech: verb

To spatter or splash.

part of speech: verb

To play or paddle in a liquid; to do anything in a trifling way.

part of speech: verb

To paddle with the hands in water; do anything in a careless manner; as, to dabble in art.

part of speech: noun

Dabbler.

Usage examples for dabble:

• Many of these young people will jump up twenty times a day and run to dabble the tips of their fingers in water, after touching the most inoffensive objects. "The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.", Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist).

• It is nobler to be confined to one calling, and to excel in that, than to dabble in forty. "Increasing Personal Efficiency", Russell H. Conwell.

• Even those comparatively few families who, like the Saracinesca, had scornfully declined to dabble in the whirlpool of affairs, did not by any means refuse to dance to the music of success which filled the city with, such enchanting strains. "Don Orsino", F. Marion Crawford.