Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to drab
Participle: drabbed
Gerund: drabbing
Indicative
Present
| I | drab |
| you | drab |
| he;she;it | drabs |
| we | drab |
| you | drab |
| they | drab |
Perfect
| I | have drabbed |
| you | have drabbed |
| he;she;it | has drabbed |
| we | have drabbed |
| you | have drabbed |
| they | have drabbed |
Past
| I | drabbed |
| you | drabbed |
| he;she;it | drabbed |
| we | drabbed |
| you | drabbed |
| they | drabbed |
Pluperfect
| I | had drabbed |
| you | had drabbed |
| he;she;it | had drabbed |
| we | had drabbed |
| you | had drabbed |
| they | had drabbed |
Future
| I | will drab |
| you | will drab |
| he;she;it | will drab |
| we | will drab |
| you | will drab |
| they | will drab |
Future Perfect
| I | will have drabbed |
| you | will have drabbed |
| he;she;it | will have drabbed |
| we | will have drabbed |
| you | will have drabbed |
| they | will have drabbed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | drab |
| you | drab |
| he;she;it | drab |
| we | drab |
| you | drab |
| they | drab |
Perfect
| I | have drabbed |
| you | have drabbed |
| he;she;it | have drabbed |
| we | have drabbed |
| you | have drabbed |
| they | have drabbed |
Imperfect
| I | drabbed |
| you | drabbed |
| he;she;it | drabbed |
| we | drabbed |
| you | drabbed |
| they | drabbed |
Pluperfect
| I | had drabbed |
| you | had drabbed |
| he;she;it | had drabbed |
| we | had drabbed |
| you | had drabbed |
| they | had drabbed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would drab |
| you | would drab |
| he;she;it | would drab |
| we | would drab |
| you | would drab |
| they | would drab |
Perfect
| I | would have drabbed |
| you | would have drabbed |
| he;she;it | would have drabbed |
| we | would have drabbed |
| you | would have drabbed |
| they | would have drabbed |
Imperative
| you | drab |
| we | Let's drab |
| you | drab |
Verbs conjugated like 'drab'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'drab'
crab,
dab,
drag,
dram,
drap,
drat,
draw,
drib,
drub,
frab,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. The origin of the noun is uncertain; compare Middle English drabelen, drablen, draplen (“to soil; make dirty; to drag on the ground or through mud”), and Low German drabbe (“dirt, mud”), drabbeln (“to soil”), and Old Norse drabba (“to make drab; make dirty”), the latter three ultimately from Proto-Germanic *drepaną (“to hit, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreb- (“to crush, grind; to kill”). The word is also likely to be related to Dutch drab (“dregs, sediment”), Irish drabog, Scottish Gaelic drabag (“dirty woman; slattern”).
2. The verb is derived from the noun. See: Proto-Germanic '
*drepaną'.
Sample Sentences
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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, published 1603, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:]
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Very fine! This Sempronius is a bleſſed Perſon indeed! he Games, he Cheats, he Swears, he Drinks, he Drabs; [...] [1720, [John] Dennis, The Invader of His Country: Or, The Fatal Resentment. A Tragedy. […], London: Printed for J. Pemberton […], and J. Watts […]; and sold by J. Brotherton and W. Meadows […]; T. Jauncy and A. Dodd […]; W. Lewis […], and J. Graves […], →OCLC, act II, scene iii, page 24:]
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Let realism have its demonstration, comedy its criticism, or even bawdry its horselaugh at the expense of sexual infatuation, if it must; but to ask us to subject our souls to its ruinous glamour, to worship it, deify it, and imply that it alone makes our life worth living, is nothing but folly gone mad erotically—a thing compared to which Falstaff's unbeglamored drinking and drabbing is respectable and rightminded. [1901, [George] Bernard Shaw, “Three Plays for Puritans”, in Three Plays for Puritans: The Devil’s Disciple, Cæsar and Cleopatra, & Captain Brassbound’s Conversion, London: Grant Richards, […], →OCLC, page xxix:]
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He did not relish the apparition of that Katherine, for when it appeared it seemed to bring with it a brother shadow that wore ragged clothes and tangled hair and foul linen; that drank from any flagon and drabbed with any doxy; that slept in tavern angles through hours of drunkenness; a thing whose fingers pillaged, filched and pilfered when and where they could; a creature that once he saw whenever he stared into a mirror. [1907, Justin Huntly McCarthy, “A Lull in the Storm”, in Needles and Pins, London: Hurst and Blackett Limited […], →OCLC, pages 78–79:]