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drabble

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drab·ble  (drbl)
tr. & intr.v. drab·bled, drab·bling, drab·bles
To make or become wet and soiled by dragging; draggle.
[Middle English drabelen.]
drabble [ˈdræbəl]
vb
to make or become wet or dirty
[from Low German drabbelen to paddle in mud; related to drab2]
Drabble [ˈdræbəl]
n
(Biographies / Drabble, Margaret (1939 F, British, WRITING: novelist, WRITING: editor) 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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