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Webster 1828 Edition

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Dipping superficially or often; playing in water, or in mud; meddling.

dabbling

dabbling ‎(plural dabblings)

(gerund of dabble) An act in which something is dabbled in
- 1989 December 22, Bill Wyman, “Let him be”, in Chicago Reader:
  […] a "home album" filled with lovable McCartneyesque hummings and dabblings about love and romance and the joys of quotidian existence, as far removed in conception and execution from his last recording project (side two of Abbey Road) as you could imagine.