DRABBER

DRAB

blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary

(adjective) causing dejection; “a blue day”; “the dark days of the war”; “a week of rainy depressing weather”; “a disconsolate winter landscape”; “the first dismal dispiriting days of November”; “a dark gloomy day”; “grim rainy weather”

drab, olive-drab

(adjective) of a light brownish green color

drab, sober, somber, sombre

(adjective) lacking brightness or color; dull; “drab faded curtains”; “sober Puritan grey”; “children in somber brown clothes”

drab, dreary

(adjective) lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise; “her drab personality”; “life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas”; “a series of dreary dinner parties”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Adjective

drabber

comparative form of drab

Noun

drabber (plural drabbers)

A hair product that works against natural colour to make the hair more drab.

(obsolete) One who associates with drabs; a wencher.

Source: Wiktionary

Drab"ber, n.

Definition: One who associates with drabs; a wencher. Massinger.

DRAB

Drab, n. Etym: [AS. drabbe dregs, lees; akin to D. drab, drabbe, dregs, G. treber; for sense 1, cf. also Gael. drabag a slattern, drabach slovenly. Cf. Draff.]

1. A low, sluttish woman. King.

2. A lewd wench; a strumpet. Shak.

3. A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.

Drab, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drabbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Drabbing.]

Definition: To associate with strumpets; to wench. Beau. & Fl.

Drab, n. Etym: [F. drap cloth: LL. drappus, trapus, perh. orig., a firm, solid stuff, cf. F. draper to drape, also to full cloth; prob. of German origin; cf. Icel. drepa to beat, strike, AS. drepan, G. treffen; perh. akin to E. drub. Cf. Drape, Trappings.]

1. A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth.

2. A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.

Drab, a.

Definition: Of a color between gray and brown.

– n.

Definition: A drab color.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition