drabber
English
Noun
drabber (plural drabbers)
- A hair product that works against natural colour to make the hair more drab.
- 1990, Deborah Chase, The New Medically Based No-Nonsense Beauty Book, page 326:
- 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
Etymology 2
drab + -er (agent noun suffix)
Noun
drabber (plural drabbers)
- (obsolete) One who associates with drabs; a wencher.
- 1632, Philip Massinger, The City Madam
References
- “drabber”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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