Meanings (ES + gloss)
chapoteo
An act of splashing in soft mud, water, etc.
After a dabble in a teaspoonful of water, and a scrape with a bit of an old sack, in a box, which is dignified with the title of "wash room"—for the American cars are, as it were,…
Happily, however, he [the gnat] is born a swimmer and can take his pleasure in his native element, poising himself near its surface head downwards, tail upwards. Why chooses he thi…
diletantismo • escarceo
An act of participation in an activity in a casual or superficial way.
A dabble in the stocks does not always turn out profitably; cotton is sometimes heavy on our hands, and real estate will sulkily retrograde, when, by the calculation, it ought to h…
From the separate little tracts and fragments which we have last noticed, (as well as the greater works, which contain a fuller development of his views on this subject,) it appear…
Phrases
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
chapotear
To cause splashing by moving a body part like a bill or limb in soft mud, water, etc., often playfully; to play in shallow water; to paddle.
The children sat on the dock and dabbled their feet in the water.
The modern masters promise very little; they know that metals cannot be transmuted, and that the elixir of life is a chimera. But these philosophers, whose hands seem only made to…
aventurarse en • diletar • escarcear • experimentar con • incursionar en
To participate or have an interest in an activity in a casual or superficial way.
As a parish priest in England he had dabbled in the black arts, seduced a number of his congregation from their faith and finally celebrated the Black Mass.
She’s an actress by trade, but has been known to dabble in poetry.