0 someone who takes a slight and not very serious interest in a subject, or tries a particular activity for a short period:
While he lacks serious talent in any fighting discipline, he's more than just a dabbler.
The New Statesman dismissed him as a dabbler in politics without 'firm views'.
In the art world she was considered a mediocre dabbler.
How could he warn his kids about drugs when he himself was a dabbler?
For the novice junkie - or 'dabbler', in jail jargon - this ritual quickly becomes a routine they cannot do without.
By the middle of the twentieth century, legislative dabblers had been edged out by a more experienced mode of legislator.
The days of paying for poor-quality legal services and subsidising dabblers and jacks-of-all-trades are over.
The problems involved are too complex and important to be left to the dabblers.
