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drabber en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From drab + -er (relational noun suffix).

Meanings

  1. A hair product that works against natural colour to make the hair more drab.
    • In one-step hair coloring products such as Miss Clairol, where you can combine different shades, you can add drabbers, which are ashy substances that minimize the red hues that exist in your hair. I well know him For a most insatiate drabber . He hath given, Before he spent his own estate , which was Nothing to the huge mass he's now possess'd of, A hundred pound a leap 1990, Deborah Chase, The New Medically Based No-Nonsense Beauty Book, page 326:

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drabber en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From drab + -er (agent noun suffix).

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) One who associates with drabs; a wencher.
    • 1632, Philip Massinger, The City Madam

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drabber en · ADJ · etymology 3

Etymology

Etymology tree English drab Proto-Indo-European *-yōs Proto-Germanic *-izô Proto-West Germanic *-iʀō Proto-Germanic *-ōzô Proto-West Germanic *-ōʀō Old English -ra Middle English -ere English -er English drabber From drab + -er (comparative suffix).

Meanings

  1. (comparative, form-of) comparative form of drab: more drab
    form of drab