Definition of Dabster

1. n. One who is skilled; a master of his business; a proficient; an adept.

Definition of Dabster

1. Noun. An expert, one who is master of their profession. ¹

2. Noun. A handy person. ¹

3. Noun. A dabbler or bungler. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dabster

1. a bungler [n -S] - See also: bungler

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dabster

dabble
dabbled
dabbler
dabblers
dabbles
dabbling
dabbling duck
dabbling ducks
dabblings
dabchick
dabchicks
dabigatran
daboia
daboias
dabs
dabster (current term)
dabsters
dacarbazine
daccha
dace
dacelike
dacemazine
dacent
daces
dacetuzumab
dacha
dachas
dachshund
dachshunds
dachsie

Literary usage of Dabster

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Race-turf Register, Sportsman's Herald, and General Stud Book by Patrick Nisbett Edgar (1833)
"dabster, A pale sorrel horse, 14 hands 3 inches high, foaled in 1761— Got by Young dabster—his dam was a 3-4 blooded mare. Maryland 1769. JAMES ANTHONY Cox. ..."

2. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1827)
"The Honourable Mr. dabster," said Mrs. Sydenham. ... on succeeding to a fortune, left him by his uncle dabster," said Mrs. Sydenham. ..."

3. Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases by Anne Elizabeth Baker (1854)
"DAB, or dabster. An adept, a proficient; a person who is export at any particular thing is ... He's sich a dabster at a plough, Few match'd him nigh or far. ..."

4. The American Boys Handy Book by Daniel Carter Beard (1890)
"Among we boys that lived in the valley of the Ohio River, a mole skin was highly prized as a sort of fetich that, when used as a "knuckle dabster " -to rest ..."

5. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1857)
"Dr. Webster proposes as the derivative of dabster, " Qu. from adapt, ... and a punster one who puns, so a dabster is one who, by continuing to dab at a ..."

6. American Journal of Education (1857)
"Dr. Webster proposes as the derivative of dabster, " Qu. from adapt, with ster. ... and a punster one who puns, so a dabster is one who, by continuing to ..."

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