Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To make or become wet and soiled by dragging; draggle.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To draggle; make dirty, as by dragging in mud and water; wet and befoul: as, to drabble a gown or a cloak.
- To fish for barbels with a rod and a long line passed through a piece of lead.
- n. Ragged and dirty people collectively; rabble.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To wet or dirty, especially by dragging through mud.
- v. intransitive To fish with a long line and rod.
- n. A fictional story, typically in fanfiction, that is exactly 100 words long.
- n. A fictional story, typically in fanfiction, only a few hundred words long.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To draggle; to wet and befoul by draggling; as, to
drabble a gown or cloak. - v. To fish with a long line and rod.
Etymologies
- 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 (Wiktionary)
- Middle English drabelen. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Well, if a drabble is 100 words, and a dribble is 50 words, then how about we say Hint Fiction cannot be anything more than 25 words.”
“The lovely jeprdyfrndly challenged me to write an entire one shot in drabble format.”
“A drabble is an extremely short work of fiction exactly one hundred words in length, although the term is often misused to indicate a short story of less than 1000 words.”
“A drabble is an extremely short work of fiction exactly one hundred words in length, although the term is often misused to indicate a short [...]”
“The above drabble is a sequel to my "Gonna Fly Now" drabble, which I wrote almost four years ago and is set during "Rocky II.”
“The purpose of the drabble is brevity and to test the author’s ability to express interesting and meaningful ideas in an extremely confined space.”
“A drabble is a story of exactly 100 words that is presented on Norm Sherman’s fiction podcast, The Drabblecast.”
“Each episode contains a longer piece, a 100-word drabble, and a 100-character twitterfic.”
“I have already mentioned that my 60-word drabble Among Strangers won first prize in the Sixty-Word Sagas competition at Earlyworks Press, and will be appearing in the next Earlyworks Press Anthology.”
“Summary: 100 word drabble and one part story where the Scoobies get trapped in a video game.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘drabble’.
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phrontistery - d
from phrontistery.info
dacnomania, dacoitage, dacryops, dactylioglyph, dactyliology, dactyliomancy, dactylogram, dactylography, dactyloid, dactylology, dactylomancy, dactylomegaly and 624 more...
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CCle
all those wonderful Britsy words that end with a double consonant followed by 'le'
doddle, bobble, dibble, whiffle, waffle, diddle, piddle, jiggle, straggle, boggle, fiddle, skeedaddle and 125 more...
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Fandom words
Words that have meaning (or new meaning) because of fandom.
slash, het, drabble, canon, ship, spoiler, wank, lemon, bnf, weeaboo, woobie, fanon and 2 more...
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capitalcreative's Words
deviltry, visceral, cassanova, assuage, genesis, hot minute, osmosis, wistful, sublime, loathe, farfetched, newfangled and 283 more...
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-bles
fine find endings
able, amble, bable, cable, cible, coble, dable, fable, gable, gible, tible, table and 241 more...
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Inner B
Words with the letter b within the word, not just as the initial or last letter.
remember, maybe, able, unable, nimble, cable, reusable, thimble, cymbal, capable, tremble, enable and 143 more...
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Fandom
fanfic, beta, fanboy, fangirl, fanfiction, fanficcer, spoiler, squeeing, shipping, shipper, ship, one true pairing and 130 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Literally Literary
Words about literature
novel, novella, drabble, serial, mystery, science fiction, fantasy, epic fantasy, science-fantasy, romance, thriller, fiction and 13 more...
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slang
fanfic slang, hacker jargon, Internet memes etc. that amuse me—mainly ones I might wish to incorporate as natural in my own writing
asamoth, beta, borg, bozo filter, canon rape, delurk, drabble, eated, eleven, facepalm, fangirl, fanon and 61 more...
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lilliput
ladybug, papermite, silverfish, mote, miniscule, micro, protozoa, fragment, ion, proton, neutrino, neutron and 18 more...
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a fan's dictionary
fanon, canon, trekkie, trekker, browncoat, shipping, het, slash, femslash, smut, gen, mary sue and 45 more...
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You Could Write a Fanfic Too!
This way lies madness.
fanfic, fanon, shipper, squick, mary sue, slash, femslash, twincest, drabble, het, lolicon, pairing and 4 more...
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by any other name
stanza, drabble, soliloquy, monologue, sonnet, Synonym, antonym, euphemism, aphasia, neologism, rhetoric, concordance and 38 more...
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Of things uncouth
tussler, dipsian, mee-maw, trumpery, frim, slake, smit, drabble
Tweets
Looking for tweets for drabble.
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