Drabble Definition

drăbəl
drabbled, drabbles, drabbling
verb
To make or become wet and soiled by dragging; draggle.
American Heritage
To become drabbled.
Webster's New World
To make wet and dirty by dragging in mud and water; draggle.
Webster's New World

(intransitive) To fish with a long line and rod.

To drabble for barbels.
Wiktionary
noun

A fictional story, typically in fanfiction, that is exactly 100 words long.

Wiktionary

A fictional story, typically in fanfiction, only a few hundred words long.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Drabble

Noun

Singular:
drabble
Plural:
drabbles

Origin of Drabble

  • From a word game in Monty Python's Big Red Book in which the first player to write a novel wins; the UK Science Fiction fandom agreed that 100 words will suffice; not, as is sometimes stated, from the surname of the author Margaret Drabble

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English drabelen

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English drabelan

    From Wiktionary

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