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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge;
[syn: dabbler, dilettante, sciolist]

2. any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling;
[syn: dabbling duck, dabbler]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Dabbler \Dab"bler\ (d[a^]b"bl[~e]r), n. 1. One who dabbles. [1913 Webster] 2. One who dips slightly into anything; a superficial meddler. "our dabblers in politics." --Swift. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

dabbler n 1: an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge [syn: dabbler, dilettante, sciolist] 2: any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling [syn: dabbling duck, dabbler] [ant: diving duck]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

36 Moby Thesaurus words for "dabbler": Sunday painter, abecedarian, amateur, coquet, criticaster, dabster, dallier, dilettante, dunce, flirt, fool, fribble, grammaticaster, greenhorn, greeny, half scholar, ignoramus, illiterate, illiterati, know-nothing, lowbrow, middlebrow, no scholar, nonprofessional, philologaster, philosophaster, piddler, potterer, puddinghead, putterer, sciolist, smatterer, tenderfoot, trifler, tyro, unintelligentsia