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drabbed

drabbed is the simple past and past participle of drab.

Meaning of drab

Verb (1)

drab (third-person singular simple present drabs, present participle drabbing, simple past and past participle drabbed)

  1. (also, attributive, intransitive, obsolete) To consort with prostitutes; to whore.
    • You may ſay, you ſaw him at ſuch a time, marke you mee, / At game, or drincking, ſwearing, or drabbing, / You may go ſo farre.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell...

Verb (2)

drab (third-person singular simple present drabs, present participle drabbing, simple past and past participle drabbed)

  1. (also, attributive, obsolete, slang) To poison.
    • "What do you mean by drows, Chaldea?"
      "Poison, no less. You look drabbed, for sure."
      "Drabbed?"
      "Poisoned. But I waste the kalo jib on you, my Gorgious. God bless you for a sick one, say I, and that's a bad dukkerin, the which in gentle Romany means fortune, my Gentile swell."1911, Fergus Hume, Red Money

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Questions about drabbed

What is drabbed the simple past and past participle of?
Drabbed is the simple past and past participle of drab.

Words near drabbed in the dictionary

  1. draadsitter
  2. draadsitters
  3. DRaaS
  4. draatsi
  5. drab
  6. drabbed
  7. drabben
  8. drabbened
  9. drabbening
  10. drabbens
  11. drabber

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