drabble

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A short fictional story, typically in fan fiction, sometimes exactly 100 words long.
动词 v.
  1. To wet or dirty, especially by dragging through mud. transitive
    — That which eſpecialleſt nouriſht the moſt prime pleaſure in me, was after a ſtorme when they were driuen inſwarmes, and lay close peſtred together as thicke as they could packe; the next day following, if it were faire, they would cloud the whole skie with canuas, by ſpreading their drabled ſailes in the full clue abroad a drying, and make a brauer ſhew with them, then ſo many banners and ſtreamers diſplayed againſt the Sunne on a mountaine top.
  2. To fish with a long line and rod. intransitive
    — to drabble for barbels

词形变化

drabbles present,singular,third-person drabbling participle,present drabbled participle,past drabbled past drabbles plural

词汇关系

衍生词
bedrabble drabbler drabble-tail

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Middle English drabelan
English drabble
Inherited from Middle English drabelan.
词源 2
From a game in Monty Python's Big Red Book in which the first player to write a novel wins; possibly derived in turn from the surname of the author Margaret Drabble.
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