From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dabbler \Dab"bler\ (d[a^]b"bl[~e]r), noun
2. One who dips slightly into anything; a superficial meddler. ''our dabblers in politics.'' --Swift.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge [syn: {dilettante}, {sciolist}]
2: any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling [syn: {dabbling duck}] [ant: {diving duck}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "dabbler": Sunday painter, abecedarian, amateur, coquet, criticaster, dabster, dallier, dilettante, dunce, flirt, fool, fribble, grammaticaster, greenhorn, greeny, half scholar, ignoramus, illiterate, illiterati, know-nothing, lowbrow, middlebrow, no scholar, nonprofessional, philologaster, philosophaster, piddler, potterer, puddinghead, putterer, sciolist, smatterer, tenderfoot, trifler, tyro, unintelligentsia
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