1. Dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid 
2. Play in or as if in water, as of small children
   - paddle, splash around 
3. Work with in an amateurish manner
   "She dabbles in astronomy"
   - smatter, play around 
4. Bob forward and under so as to feed off the bottom of a body of water
   "dabbling ducks"

Derived forms: dabbles, dabbling, dabbled

See also: dabbler

Type of: bob, busy, dip, douse, dunk, occupy, play, plunge, souse

Encyclopedia: Dabble

• perceptibility
• perceptible
• perceptibly
• perception
• perceptive
• perceptively
• perceptiveness
• perceptivity
• perceptual
• perceptual constancy
• perceptual experience
• perceptually
• perch
• perchance
• percher
• Percheron
• perching bird
• perchlorate
• perchloric acid
• perchloride
• perchloromethane
• Percidae
• Perciformes
• Percina
• Percina tanasi