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dabbler
Part of speech: NounOne who meddles without going to the bottom; a superficial meddler.
Usage examples "dabbler":- Grider, the man he was to have met in Quebec, was a college classmate, a harebrained young barbarian, rich, an outdoor fanatic, an owner of fast yachts, a driver of fast cars, and latterly a dabbler in aviatics. - "Stranded in Arcady", Francis Lynde.
- Then there was Lord Ronald Engleton, an orphan brought up in Paris, a would- be decadent, a dabbler in all modern iniquities, redeemed from folly only by a certain not altogether wholesome cleverness, yet with a disposition which sometimes gained for him friends in most unlikely quarters. - "Jeanne of the Marshes", E. Phillips Oppenheim.
- A dabbler in science, Mr. Holmes, a picker up of shells on the shores of the great unknown ocean. - "The Hound of the Baskervilles", A. Conan Doyle.