- dabble (v.)
[dabble 词源字典]
- 1550s, probably a frequentative of dab. Original meaning was "wet by splashing;" modern figurative sense of "do superficially" first recorded 1620s. Related: Dabbled; dabbling. An Ellen Dablewife is in the Lancashire Inquests from 1336.[dabble etymology, dabble origin, 英语词源]