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All dabble synonyms

dab·ble
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verb dabble

  • play at — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • trifle — an article or thing of very little value.
  • play — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • monkey — any mammal of the order Primates, including the guenons, macaques, langurs, and capuchins, but excluding humans, the anthropoid apes, and, usually, the tarsier and prosimians. Compare New World monkey, Old World monkey.
  • dilly-dally — to loiter or vacillate
  • idle — not working or active; unemployed; doing nothing: idle workers.
  • dally — If you dally, you act or move very slowly, wasting time.
  • dip into — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
  • putter — to busy or occupy oneself in a leisurely, casual, or ineffective manner: to putter in the garden.
  • fiddle — a musical instrument of the viol family.
  • have a go at — attack verbally
  • potter — Beatrix [bee-uh-triks] /ˈbi ə trɪks/ (Show IPA), 1866–1943, English writer and illustrator of children's books.
  • dip — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
  • paddle — a short, flat bladed oar for propelling and steering a canoe or small boat, usually held by both hands and moved more or less through a vertical arc.
  • splash — to wet or soil by dashing masses or particles of water, mud, or the like; spatter: Don't splash her dress!
  • immerse — to plunge into or place under a liquid; dip; sink.
  • horse around — a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
  • kid around — behave jokingly or playfully
  • mess around — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
  • play around — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • monkey around — any mammal of the order Primates, including the guenons, macaques, langurs, and capuchins, but excluding humans, the anthropoid apes, and, usually, the tarsier and prosimians. Compare New World monkey, Old World monkey.
  • muck around — moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
  • toy with — If you toy with an idea, you consider it casually without making any decisions about it.
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