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Novelist found in dingy island retreat for the most part
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drabble
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A drabble is a short work of fiction of around one hundred words in length. The purpose of the drabble is brevity, testing the author's ability to express interesting and meaningful ideas in a confined space.
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Etymology 1 vb. 1 (context transitive English) To wet or dirty, especially by dragging through mud. 2 (context intransitive English) To fish with a long line and rod. Etymology 2 n. A short fictional story, typically in fan fiction, sometimes exactly 100 ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drabble \Drab"ble\, v. i. To fish with a long line and rod; as, to drabble for barbels.
Usage examples of drabble.
Adding to his anger and concern was the fact that he was accompanied by two good men-Ozzy Drabble and Hec Magill-whose lives were his reponsibility.
Bridgetown Grill was hotter still, flaring with the spit and sizzle of Jamaican cooking in the open kitchen that ran the length of the narrow gallery painted with palm trees and crowded by fast-talking dental hygienists whose glasses kept steaming up, and by white rastas whose dreads drabbled through their blackened fish and hot sauce unnoticed.
Anne, clinging to Gilbert Blythe's hand, scrambled down into the dory, where she sat, drabbled and furious, in the stern with her arms full of dripping shawl and wet crepe.
Her dress skirt was gone, her petticoat wet and drabbled, and the waist of her dress was almost torn from her body.
Plainly I see that it is not my drabbled skirts he is sorry for, it is my addled wits.
He gave out dribbles and drabbles of information about the strange people in Germany and their amazing devices to several wealthy men in search of a patron, and finally found one in Don Giovanni Romano, a merchant with ties to many other wealthy men.
Not in little dribbles and drabbles, like fission or fusion, but one hundred point zero zero zero zero per cent conversion?
Slowly he raised his head and saw her, only a few paces away, eyeing him, her beak drabbling a spittle of venom, and a green ooze trickling from below her wounded eye.
The head groom, Peter Drabble, had fitted her out with a small, neat English saddle, but in her dreams she rode bareback.