verb, noun
verb (-bb-)
1 ~ (at) sth to touch sth lightly, usually several times:
[VN] She dabbed her eyes and blew her nose. * [V] He dabbed at the cut with his handkerchief.
2 [VN+adv./prep.] to put sth on a surface with quick light movements:
She dabbed a little perfume behind her ears.
Part of speech: noun
1 a small amount of a liquid, cream or powder that is put on a surface in a quick gentle movement:
She put a dab of perfume behind her ears.
2 an act of gently touching or pressing sth without rubbing:
He gave the cut a quick dab with the corner of a towel.
3 a small flat fish
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for dab is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is dab a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, dab is tagged as noun.
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