To dabble in the funds; to dabble in politics—i.e. to do something in them in a small way. (Dutch, dabbelen, our dip and tap.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.