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{{also|dráb}}
==English==
{{was wotd|2019|December|16}}

===Pronunciation===
[[File:Beige wool texture.jpg|thumb|[[wool|Wool]] [[fabric]] that is drab in [[colour#Noun|colour]] ''(sense 2)'']]

* {{IPA|en|/dɹæb/|a=RP,GA}}
* {{rhymes|en|æb|s=1}}
* {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-drab.wav|a=Southern England}}

===Etymology 1===
{{root|en|ine-pro|*dʰrebʰ-|*drep-}}
Probably from {{der|en|frm|-}} and {{der|en|fro|drap|t=cloth}},<ref>{{R:OED Online|pos=''n.{{sup|2}}'', ''adj.'', and ''n.''|noformat=yes|id=57357|date=1897|nodot=yes}}; {{R:Lexico|alt=drab{{sup|1}}|pos=adj.'' and ''n}}</ref> either:

* from {{der|en|LL.|drappus|t=drabcloth, kerchief; piece of cloth}},<ref>{{R:Skeat Etymological Dictionary|entry=DRAB (2)|page=181|column=1}}</ref><ref>See, for example, the ''Vita Caesaris Arelatis'' (6th century): see {{cite-book|author=Jean-Paul Savignac|authorlink=Jean-Paul Savignac|entry=drap|title=Dictionnaire français-gaulois|location=Paris|publisher=Editions la Différence|year=2004|page=123|isbn=978-2-7291-1529-6}}.</ref> most likely from {{der|en|cel-gau|*drappo}},<ref>{{cite-book|entry=drab|editor=[[w:Robert Barnhart|Robert K. Barnhart]]|title=Chambers Dictionary of Etymology|location=Edinburgh|publisher=[[w:Chambers (publisher)|Chambers]]|year=2003|isbn=978-0-550-14230-6}}.</ref> from {{der|en|ine-pro|*drep-|t=to scratch, tear}}; or
* from {{der|en|frk|*drapi}}, {{m|gmw-pro|*drāpi|t=that which is fulled, drabcloth}}, from {{der|en|gem-pro|*drap-}}, {{m|gem-pro|*drēp-|t=something beaten}}, from {{m|gem-pro|*drepaną|t=to beat, strike}}, from {{der|en|ine-pro|*dʰrebʰ-|t=to beat, crush; to make or become thick}}.

The English word is cognate with {{cog|grc|δρέπω|t=to pluck}}, {{cog|ae|𐬛𐬭𐬀𐬟𐬱𐬀|t=banner, flag}}, {{cog|lt|drãpanos|t=household linens}}, {{cog|non|trefja|t=to rub, wear out}}, {{m|non|trof|t=fringes}}, {{cog|sa|द्रापि|t=mantle, gown}}, {{cog|sh|drápati|t=to scratch, scrape}}).<ref>{{cite-book|author=Xavier Delamarre|entry=drappo|title=Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise : une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental|location=Paris|publisher=Errance|year=2001|isbn=978-2-87772-198-1}}.</ref>

====Noun====
{{en-noun|~}} {{term-label|en|also|attributively}}

# A [[fabric]], usually of [[thick]] [[cotton]] or [[wool]], having a [[dull#Adjective|dull]] [[brownish]] [[yellow#Noun|yellow]], dull [[grey#Noun|grey]], or [[dun]] [[colour#Noun|colour]].
#: {{synonyms|en|drabcloth}}
#* {{quote-book|en|chapter=Letter X|title=Examinator’s Letters, or, A Mirror for British Monopolists and Irish Financiers|location=Dublin|publisher=Printed, and sold by the booksellers|year=1786|pages=41–42|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Q0LfZMdzzkC&pg=PA42|oclc=225275990|passage=John Hanſell, of Bridport, in Dorſetſhire, ſail-cloth manufacturer, ſtates in his evidence, that the ſale of coarſe woollen cloath was not then a twentieth part of what it had been for the common people formerly, owing to their ſubſtituting Ruſſia '''drabs''' and ravenſduck as garments in place of the coarſe woollens.}}
# The colour of this fabric.
#: {{color panel|A29075}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=w:John Dalton|title=Extraordinary Facts Relating to the Vision of Colours: With Observations|journal=[[w:Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society|Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester]]|location=Manchester|publisher=Printed by [[w:George Nicholson (printer)|George Nicholson]] for [[w:Cadell & Davies|Cadell and Davies]]|date=31 October 1794|year_published=1798|volume=V, part 1|page=36|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=jYkyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA36|oclc=1039112623|passage=Most of the colours called '''drabs''' appear to me the same by day-light and candle-light.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=Mrs. Howitt|title=The Friends’ Family|editors=[[w:William Chambers (publisher)|William]]; [[w:Robert Chambers (journalist)|Robert Chambers]]|magazine=[[w:Chambers's Edinburgh Journal|Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal]]|location=Edinburgh|publisher=Published,{{nb...|with the permission of the proprietors}}, by [[w:Orr's Circle of the Sciences#William S Orr & Co.|W[illiam] S[omerville] Orr and Co.]],{{nb...|Amen Corner, Paternoster Row; and sold by all booksellers in town and country.}}|date=17 February 1838|year_published=1839|volume=VII|issue=316|page=25|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=DVoyAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA25|column=2|oclc=4167154|passage=[T]he carpet is a Brussels, of rather a small pattern, in various shades of greens and '''drabs'''.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Thomas Love|chapter=To Dye Silk Drabs in the Lavender Vat Different Ways|title=The Art of Cleaning, Dyeing, Scouring, and Finishing, on the Most Approved English and French Methods.{{nb...|Being a Perfect Compendium of All that is Essential to be Known in Dyeing Silks, Woollens, Cottons, Feathers, Bonnets, &c. To which is Added Instructions for Cleaning and Scouring Carpets, Hearth-rugs, Ancient Tapestry, Bed and Window Curtains, &c.}}|location=London|publisher=[[w:Longman|Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans]],{{nb...|Paternoster Row.}}|year=1854|section=part I (The Art of Cleaning and Dyeing Silk)|page=78|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=1TNdAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA78|oclc=156146025|passage=Let your light '''drabs''' be next. Do not put anything in your liquor after your greys, except a pint of this ebony liquor; stir it up well, and handle in your silks for light '''drab''' for twenty minutes, and they are done; [...] The next '''drab''' you dye in the vat is a dark stone '''drab'''.}}
#* {{RQ:Alcott Little Women|part=1|chapter=The Laurence Boy|pages=42–43|pageref=42|passage=They looked very well in their simple suits, Meg in silvery '''drab''', with a blue velvet snood, lace frills, and the pearl pin; Jo in maroon, with a stiff, gentlemanly linen collar, and a white chrysanthemum or two for her only ornament.}}
#* {{RQ:Sandburg Smoke and Steel|poem=The Sins of Kalamazoo|page=49|passage=The sins of Kalamazoo are neither scarlet nor crimson. / The sins of Kalamazoo are a convict gray, a dishwater '''drab'''. / And the people who sin the sins of Kalamazoo are neither scarlet nor crimson. / They run to '''drabs''' and grays—and some of them sing they shall be washed whiter than snow—and some: We should worry.}}
# ''Often in the {{glossary|plural}} form'' '''{{l|en|drabs}}''': [[apparel]], especially [[trousers]], [[make#Verb|made]] from this fabric.
#* {{RQ:Henry Mackenzie Man of Feeling|chapter=He Makes a Second Expedition to the Baronet’s.{{nb...|The Laudable Ambition of a Young Man to be Thought Something by the World.}}|page=45|passage=He wore a pretty large wig, which had once been white, but was now of a browniſh yellow; his coat was one of thoſe modeſt-coloured '''drabs''' which mock the injuries of duſt and dirt; [...]}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=J. Crawford Wilson|title=Brutus|magazine=Frank Leslie’s Monthly|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=&#91;{{w|Frank Leslie}}&#93; Publication Office, 19, City Hall Square|month=September|year=1860|volume=VII|issue=3|page=237|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=DXNHAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA237|column=1|oclc=18534370|passage=[T]o please her he promised to lay aside the universal '''drabs''' for the wedding day and to case his extremities in modern black cloth continuations, with an express stipulation that the '''drabs''' should again be in active service on the subsequent morning.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=Jane Armstrong|title=Woman Architect who Helped Build the Fairmont Hotel|journal=The Architect and Engineer of California|location=San Francisco; Los Angeles, Calif.|publisher=Architect & Engineer Co.|month=October|year=1907|volume=X|issue=3|page=70|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/architect1907sanf/page/n573/mode/1up|oclc=228680284|passage=I knew that {{w|Julia Morgan}} was a Beaux Arts graduate, and through my mind there trooped a bizarre procession of girls who have studied one thing or another in Paris. They usually come home dressed in a color scheme of the impressionistic school, with their talent merely a by-product of a wonderful new set of mannerisms and a novel and fuzzy way of doing their hair. Yet here was a young woman dressed in '''drab''' and severely hair pinned.}}
# {{lb|en|by extension}} A dull or [[uninteresting]] [[appearance]] or [[situation]], [[unremarkable]].
#* {{RQ:Dickens Collins No Thoroughfare|act=I|page=3|column=2|passage=The slimy little causeway had dropped into the river by a slow process of suicide, and two or three stumps of piles and a rusty iron mooring-ring were all that remained of the departed Break-Neck glories. [...] [T]hrough three-fourths of its rising tides the dirty indecorous '''drab''' of a river would come solitarily oozing and lapping at the rusty ring, [...]}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=December 23, 2018|author= Lucy Mangan |newspaper=w:The Guardian|title=[https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/dec/23/watership-down-review-cgi-rabbits-cant-save-this-christmas-turkey WatershipDown review - CGI rabbits can't save this Christmas turkey]|passage=Watership Down review – CGI rabbits can't save this Christmas turkey. The 1970s cartoon traumatised generations of children, but the new version is tame, '''drab''' and deeply unsatisfying. What, really, was the point?}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=April 5, 2019|author=Joseph Lee|work=w:BBC|title=[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-47819408 Drab London office block was GCHQ spy base]|passage=A '''drab''' office block sandwiched between a pub and a branch of Starbucks was a secret base of spy agency GCHQ, it has been confirmed. The anonymous building opposite St James's Park Tube station in central London was used by British spooks for 66 years.}}

=====Derived terms=====
* [[Russia drab]]

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|fabric having a dull brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun colour}}
* French: grosse toile écrue
* Italian: {{t+|it|drappo|m}}, {{t+|it|tessuto|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|colour of this fabric}}
* Czech: {{t|cs|světle hnědá barva}}
* French: {{t+|fr|gris}}-{{t+|fr|beige}}
* Serbo-Croatian: {{t+|sh|drap}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|apparel made from this fabric}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|dull or uninteresting appearance or situation}}
* French: {{t+|fr|apparence}} {{t+|fr|terne}}, aspect {{t+|fr|morne}}
{{trans-bottom}}

=====See also=====
* [[Appendix:Colors]]

====Adjective====
{{en-adj|er}}

# Of the [[colour#Noun|colour]] of some [[type#Noun|types]] of [[drabcloth]]: [[dull#Adjective|dull]] [[brownish]] [[yellow#Noun|yellow]] or [[dun]].
#* {{RQ:Eliot Scenes of Clerical Life|volume=I|chapter=II|page=190|passage=The coffee presently appeared, brought not as usual by the footman, in scarlet and '''drab''', but by the old butler, in threadbare but well-brushed black, [...]}}
# {{lb|en|by extension}} ''Particularly of [[colour#Noun|colour]]'': [[dull#Adjective|dull]], [[uninteresting]].
#* {{RQ:Sterne Sentimental Journey|volume=II|chapter=The Mystery. Paris.|page=104|passage=[T]he man was about fifty-two—had a ſmall cane under his arm—was dreſs'd in a dark '''drab'''-colour'd coat, waiſtcoat, and breeches, which ſeem'd to have seen ſome years ſervice—they were ſtill clean, and there was a little air of frugal ''propretè'' throughout him.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=[[w:Rhoda Broughton|[Rhoda Broughton]]]|title=Red as a Rose is She|magazine=[[w:Temple Bar (magazine)|Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers]]|location=London|publisher=[[w:Richard Bentley (publisher)|Richard Bentley]],{{nb...|8, New Burlington Street.}}; New York, N.Y.: Willmer and Rogers|month=December|year=1869|year_published=March 1870|volume=XXVIII|section=chapter XXXI|page=11|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=ukM8AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA11|oclc=177729571|passage=Year by year they will find her with even thinner hair, sharper shoulders, '''drabber''' cheeks; and he, looking upon her with the forgiveness of complete indifference, will say to himself, "She is bad, and she is ugly; I was well rid of her!"}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Eunice Tietjens|chapter=The Steam Shovel|editors=w:Harriet Monroe; w:Alice Corbin Henderson|title=The New Poetry: An Anthology|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=[[w:Macmillan Inc.|The Macmillan Company]]|year=1914|year_published=February 1917 (March–April 1917 printing)|page=342|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/newpoetryantholo00monrrich/page/342/mode/1up|lines=29–35|oclc=|passage=Have you no longing ever to be free? / In warm, electric days to run a-muck, / Ranging like some mad dinosaur, / Your fiery heart at war / With this strange world, the city's restless ruck, / Where all '''drab''' things that toil, save you alone, / Have life; [...]}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=Harold Steevens|title=The Duplicate Cheque|editor=&#91;{{w|Herbert Greenhough Smith}}&#93;|magazine=[[w:The Strand Magazine|The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly]]|location=London|publisher=George Newnes, Ltd.,{{nb...|8–11, Southampton Street, and Exeter Street, Strand}}|month=April|year=1923|volume=LXV|page=345|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=qdwvAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA345|column=1|oclc=1006315258|passage=The more he basked in golden dreams the '''drabber''' seemed his humdrum life behind the bank counter.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Emily Carr|chapter=Sounds and Silences|title=The House of All Sorts|location=Toronto, Ont.; London|publisher=w:Oxford University Press|year=1944|page=10|pageurl=https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcbooks/items/1.0380569#p27z-5r0f|oclc=1560977|passage=Furniture is comical. It responds to humans. For some it looks its '''drabbest''', for others it sparkles and looks, if not handsome, at any rate comfortable.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Carl Dennis|chapter=Sarit Narai|editors=[[w:Robert Pack (poet)|Robert Pack]]; w:Jay Parini|title=Introspections: American Poets on One of Their Own Poems|location=Hanover, N.H.; London|publisher=[[w:Middlebury College|Middlebury College Press]]; published by {{w|University Press of New England}}|year=1997|pages=59–60|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=KmhvBdWlWeUC&pg=PA60|isbn=978-0-87451-772-9|passage=And what if your daughter admires him even more / And comes to choose him for her life's companion, / Not the '''drab''' complainer she ended up with.}}
#* {{quote-web|en|author=David Ornstein|title=[[w:Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C.|Macc Tel-Aviv]] 1 – 2 [[w:Stoke City F.C.|Stoke]]|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190326033033/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/15472966.stm|archivedate=26 March 2019|work=w:BBC Sport|date=3 November 2011|passage=In a '''drab''' first half, {{w|Ryan Shotton}}'s drive was deflected on to a post and {{w|Jon Walters}} twice went close.}}

=====Derived terms=====
{{col-auto|en|drabbish|drabby|drabware
|drably|drabness|olive drab}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun color}}
* Czech: {{t|cs|světle hnědý}}
* French: {{t+|fr|grisâtre}}, {{t+|fr|beigeasse}}, {{t+|fr|beigeâtre}}
* Serbo-Croatian: {{t+|sh|drap}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top-also|with a dull or uninteresting appearance|dull|uninteresting}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|еднообразен}}, {{t+|bg|сив}}, {{t+|bg|скучен}}
* Czech: {{t|cs|fádní}}, {{t|cs|nevýrazný}}, {{t|cs|ošuntělý}}, {{t+|cs|šedivý}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|ankea}}, {{t+|fi|tympeä}}
* French: {{t+|fr|terne}}, {{t+|fr|morne}}, {{t+|fr|fade}}, sans {{t+|fr|relief}}
* French Canadian: {{t+|fr|drabe}}
* German: {{t+|de|langweilig}}, {{t+|de|tröge}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|grigio|m}}, {{t+|it|scialbo|m}}, {{t+|it|sciatta|f}}, {{t+|it|sciatto|m}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|mākihakiha}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|bezbarwny}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|spălăcit}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|однообра́зный}}, {{t+|ru|ту́склый}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===Etymology 2===
{{root|en|ine-pro|*dʰreb-}}
The origin of the noun is {{uncertain|en|nocap=1}}; compare {{cog|enm|drabelen}}, {{m|enm|drablen}}, {{m|enm|draplen|t=to soil; make dirty; to drag on the ground or through mud}},<ref>{{R:MED Online|entry=drabelen|pos=v|id=MED12507}}</ref> and {{cog|nds|drabbe|t=dirt, mud}}, {{m|nds|drabbeln|t=to soil}}, and {{cog|non|drabba|t=to make drab; make dirty}}, the latter three ultimately from {{cog|gem-pro|*drepaną|t=to hit, strike}}, from {{cog|ine-pro|*dʰreb-|t=to crush, grind; to kill}}. The word is also likely to be related to {{cog|nl|drab|t=dregs, sediment}}, {{cog|ga|drabog}}, {{cog|gd|drabag|t=dirty woman; slattern}}.<ref>{{R:OED Online|pos=''n.{{sup|1}}''|noformat=yes|id=57356|date=1897|nodot=yes}}; {{R:Lexico|alt=drab{{sup|2}}|pos=n}}</ref>

The verb is derived from the noun.<ref>{{R:OED Online|pos=v|id=57358|date=1897}}</ref>

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{lb|en|dated}} A [[dirty]] or [[untidy]] [[woman]]; a [[slattern]].
#* {{RQ:Harvey Pierces Supererogation|page=150|passage=[C]ertainly thou deſireſt but thy right, that canſt read a rhetorique, or logique lecture to {{w|Hecuba}} in the art of raving, and inſtruct [[w:Tisiphone|Tiſiphone]] herſelfe in her owne gnaſhing language. Other he, or ſhe, '''drabs''' of the curſteſt or vengeableſt rankes, are but dipped or dyed in the art; not ſuch a belldam in the whole kingdome of frogges, as thy croking, and moſt clamorous ſelfe.}}
#* {{RQ:Puritan|act=I|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_SkOAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP11|passage=[O]ld Lad of War; thou that were wont to be as hot as a turn-ſpit, as nimble as a fencer, & as lowzy as a ſchoole-maiſter; now thou art put to ſilence like a Secretarie? [...] who are your centinells in peace and ſtand ready charg'd to giue warning; with hems, hums, & pockey-coffs; only your Chambers are licenc'ſt to play vpon you, and '''Drabs''' enow to giue fire to 'em.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=James Hovvell [''i.e.'', {{w|James Howell}}]|chapter=Diharebion Cymraeg, VVedu ei Cysiethu yn Saisoneg = British, or Old Cambrian Proverbs, and Cymraecan Adages, Never Englished, (and Divers Never Published) before.{{nb...|Which Proverbs are Partly Moral, Relating to Good Life; Physical, Relating to Diet, and Health; Topical, Relating to Particular Places; Temporal, Relating to Seasons; Ironical, Relating to Drollery, and Mirth, &c.}}|title=Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English–French–Italian–Spanish Dictionary:{{nb...|Whereunto is Adjoined a Large Nomenclature of the Proper Terms (in All the Four) Belonging to Several Arts and Sciences, to Recreations, to Professions both Liberal and Mechanick, &c. Divided into Fiftie Two Sections; with Another Volume of the Choicest Proverbs in All the Said Toungs, (Consisting of Divers Compleat Tomes) and the English Translated into the Other Three, to Take Off the Reproch which Useth to be Cast upon Her, that She is but Barren in This Point, and Those Proverbs She hath are but Flat and Empty. Moreover, there are Sundry Familiar Letters and Verses Running All in Proverbs, with a Particular Tome of the British or Old Cambrian Sayed-saws and Adages, which the Author Thought Fit to Annex hereunto, and Make Intelligible, for Their Great Antiquity and Weight: Lastly, there are Five Centuries of New Sayings, which, in Tract of Time, may Serve for Proverbs to Posterity. By the Labours and Lucubrations of James Hovvwll, Esq; [...]}}|location=Printed by J[ohn] G[rismond] for Samuel Thomson{{nb...|at the Bishops Head in S. Pauls Church-yard.}}|year=1660|page=20|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=PCtWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA41-IA19|oclc=223156151|passage=As ſtiff as a '''drab'''s diſtaff.}}
#* {{RQ:Eliot Middlemarch|volume=I|book=I|chapter=XI|page=164|passage=Old provincial society had [...] its brilliant young professional dandies who ended by living up an entry with a '''drab''' and six children for their establishment, [...]}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=J. J. Marric [pseudonym; {{w|John Creasey}}]|chapter=Father and Son|title=Gideon’s Week|location=London|publisher=w:Hodder & Stoughton|year=1956|page=154|oclc=1377060|newversion=republished in|title2=Gideon at Work: Three Complete Novels: Gideon’s Day, Gideon’s Week, Gideon’s Night|location2=New York, N.Y.|publisher2=[[w:Harper (publisher)|Harper & Brothers]], publishers|year2=1957|page2=250|pageurl2=https://archive.org/details/gideonatworkthre00marr/page/250/mode/1up|oclc2=1303091|passage=The doss house emptied during the day; from ten o'clock until five or six in the evening, there was no one there except Mulliver, a '''drab''' who did some of the cleaning for him, and occasional visitors.}}
# {{lb|en|dated}} A [[promiscuous]] woman, a [[slut]]; a [[prostitute#Noun|prostitute]].
#: {{synonyms|en|Thesaurus:promiscuous woman|Thesaurus:prostitute}}
#* {{RQ:Tusser Good Husbandrie|year=1878|chapter=74. A Digression.|stanza=4|page=166|passage=Take heed to false harlots, and more, ye [[wot]] what. / If noise ye heare, / Looke all be cleare: / [[lest|Least]] '''drabs''' doe [[noy|noie]] thee, / And [[thieves|theeues]] destroie thee.}}
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida|act=V|scene=i|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XLs2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PT76|lines=93–95|passage=[T]hey ſay hee keepes a [[Trojan|Troyan]] '''drab''', and [[uses|yſes]] the traytor ''Calcas'' tent, Ile after&nbsp;… —Nothing but letchery all incontinent [[varlet|varlots]].}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Io[hn] Cooke|title=[[w:Greene's Tu Quoque|Greenes Tu Quoque, or, The Cittie Gallant.{{nb...|As It hath beene Diuers Times Acted by the Queenes Maiesties Seruants.}}]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1kZRAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP69|location=printed at London|publisher=[By {{w|Nicholas Okes}}] for Iohn Trundle|year='''1611''' December 27 (first performance)|year_published=1614|oclc=606495627|passage=Experience ſhewes, his Purſe ſhall ſoone grow light, / Whom Dice waſtes in the day, '''Drabs''' in the night: / Let all auoyde falſe Strumpets, Dice, and Drinke; / For hee that leaps in Mudde, ſhall quickly ſinke.}}
#* {{RQ:Pope Works|chapter=[Satires of Dr. {{w|John Donne}}, Dean of St. Paul’s.] The Second Satire of Dr. John Donne.|volume=II|page=49|lines=63–64|passage=Curs'd be the Wretch! ſo venal and ſo vain; / Paltry and proud, as '''drabs''' in Drury-lane.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Oliver Goldsmith|chapter=A Description of an Author’s Bed-chamber|title=Poems and Plays.{{nb...|[...] To which is Prefixed, the Life of the Author.}}|edition=new corrected|location=London|publisher=Printed for Messrs. Price [''et al.'']|year=a. 1775|year_published=1785|page=10|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=XCQvAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA10|oclc=1016221269|passage=Where the Red Lion ſtaring o'er the way, / Invites each paſſing ſtranger that can pay; / Where ''Calvert''’s butt, and ''Parſon''’s black champaign, / Regale the '''drabs''' and bloods of Drury-lane; [...]}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=[[w:Frank Arthur Swinnerton|Frank Swinnerton]]|title=The Woman from Sicily|location=London|publisher=[[w:Hutchinson (publisher)|Hutchinson]]|year=1957|page=194|oclc=2630480|passage=Ineffable sarcasm underlined the word 'bride', suggesting that Mrs Mudge must be a '''drab''' who had married for respectability.}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top-also|dirty or untidy woman|slattern}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|повлекана|f}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|lunttu}}, {{t+|fi|lutka}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|promiscuous woman; prostitute}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|проститутка|f}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|lutka}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|проститу́тка|f}}
* Serbo-Croatian: {{t+|sh|kurva|f}}
{{trans-bottom}}

====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|intransitive|obsolete}} To [[consort#Verb|consort]] with [[prostitute]]s; to [[whore#Verb|whore]].
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet Q1-2|act=II|scene=1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jrU8AAAAYAAJ&pg=PT24|passage=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.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=[[w:John Dennis (dramatist)|[John] Dennis]]|title=The Invader of His Country: Or, The Fatal Resentment. A Tragedy.{{nb...|As It is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By His Majesty’s Servants.}}|location=London|publisher=Printed for J. Pemberton{{nb...|in Fleet-street}}, and J. Watts{{nb...|near Lincolns-Inn-Fields}}; and sold by J. Brotherton and W. Meadows{{nb...|in Cornhill}}; T. Jauncy and A. Dodd{{nb...|without Temple-Bar}}; W. Lewis{{nb...|in Covent-Garden}}, and J. Graves{{nb...|at St. James’s.}}|year=1720|section=act II, scene iii|page=24|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=I5gNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA24|oclc=976800376|passage=Very fine! This ''Sempronius'' is a bleſſed Perſon indeed! he Games, he Cheats, he Swears, he Drinks, he '''Drabs'''; [...]}}
#* {{RQ:Shaw Three Plays|chapter=Three Plays for Puritans|page=xxix|passage=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 {{w|Falstaff}}'s unbeglamored drinking and '''drabbing''' is respectable and rightminded.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Justin Huntly McCarthy|chapter=A Lull in the Storm|title=Needles and Pins|location=London|publisher=[[w:Hurst and Blackett|Hurst and Blackett Limited]]{{nb...|182, High Holborn, W.C.}}|year=1907|pages=78–79|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/needlesandpins01mccagoog/page/n90/mode/1up|oclc=10478497|passage=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.}}

=====Derived terms=====
* {{l|en|drabber}}
* {{l|en|drabbing|pos=noun}}

===Etymology 3===
Probably related to {{m|en|drop|t=small mass of liquid}}.

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# A [[small]] [[amount#Noun|amount]], especially of [[money]].
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Jonathan Swift|compiler=[[w:Thomas Sheridan (divine)|Thomas Sheridan]]|chapter=VII. Another, Written upon a Window where there was No Writing before.|title=The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin. {{...|Arranged by Thomas Sheridan, A.M. with Notes, Historical and Critical.}} In Nineteen Volumes|edition=new corrected and revised|location=London|publisher=Printed [by Nichols and Son] for [[w:Joseph Johnson (publisher)|J[oseph] Johnson]] [''et al.'']|year=a. 1746|year_published=1801|volume=VII|page=361|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/worksarrbythomas07swifuoft/page/361/mode/1up|oclc=6772664|passage=Thanks to my stars, I once can see / A window here from scribbling free! / Here no conceited coxcombs pass, / To scratch their paltry '''drabs''' on glass; / Nor party-fool is calling names, / Or dealing crowns to George and James.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:William Cobbett|chapter=Brewing Beer|chapterurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=8mdAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP31|title=Cottage Economy:{{nb...|Containing Information Relative to the Brewing of Beer, Making of Bread, Keeping of Cows, Pigs, Bees, Ewes, Goats, Poultry and Rabbits, and Relative to Other Matters Deemed Useful in the Conducting of the Affairs of a Labourer’s Family; to which are Added, Instructions Relative to the Selecting, the Cutting and the Bleaching of the Plants of English Grass and Grain, for the Purpose of Making Hats and Bonnets.}}|edition=new|location=London|publisher=Printed for J. M. Cobbett,{{nb...|Fleet Street.}}|year=1823|section=paragraph 30|oclc=1015431964|passage=The tea drinking has done a great deal in bringing this nation into the state [of] misery in which it now is; and the tea drinking, which is carried on by "dribs" and "'''drabs''';" by pence and farthings going out at a time; this miserable practice has been gradually introduced by the growing weight of the taxes on Malt and on Hops, and by the everlasting penury amongst the labourers, occasioned by the paper-money.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Michael Z. Williamson|chapter=4|chapterurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=wr50CwAAQBAJ&pg=PT54|title=Contact with Chaos|location=Riverdale, N.Y.|publisher=[[w:Baen Books|Baen Publishing Enterprises]]|month=April|year=2009|isbn=978-1-4165-9154-2|passage=He could play good guy and give them a few '''drabs''' of info to sweeten things.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=[[w:Robert Levy (author)|Robert Levy]]|title=The Glittering World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=glhABAAAQBAJ&pg=PT294|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=[[w:Gallery Publishing Group|Gallery Books]]|year=2015|isbn=978-1-4767-7452-7|passage=He reached for another candy bar and hungrily devoured it, as fetid '''drabs''' of water fell on him from the ceiling.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Lewis A. Haeflinger|chapter=In My Dreams|chapterurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=pM96DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT122|title=Life in the World Wind|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Page Publishing|year=2018|isbn=978-1-64350-560-2|passage=I was itching to shoot up the developing fields of barley growing before my eyes. If my aim had any effect, Germany would be short a few '''drabs''' of ale.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Patrick Moran|title=Wine Country Cannibals|location=Glen Ellen, Calif.|publisher=[[w:Lulu.com|Sweet Pea & Company]]|year=2018|page=85|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=qBVhDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA85|isbn=978-1-365-81179-1|passage=His tone, which contained more than a few '''drabs''' of sarcasm, was a notch or two shy of disrespectful, and his words, though sharp, were themselves circumspect.}}

=====Derived terms=====
* {{l|en|dribs and drabs}}

===Etymology 4===
{{unknown|en|{{unk|en}}}}.

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# A [[box#Noun|box]] used in a [[saltworks]] for holding the [[salt#Noun|salt]] when taken out of the [[boiling#Adjective|boiling]] [[pan#Noun|pans]].
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:William Brownrigg|chapter=Of the Use of Salt as a Condiment or Pickle|title=The Art of Making Common Salt, as Now Practised in Most Parts of the World; with Several Improvements Proposed in that Art, for the Use of the British Dominions|location=London|publisher=Printed, and sold by C. Davis,{{nb...|in Holborn}}; [[w:Andrew Millar|A[ndrew] Millar]],{{nb...|in the Strand}}; and [[w:Robert Dodsley|R[obert] Dodsley]],{{nb...|in Pall mall.}}|year=1748|section=part II (The Art of Preparing White Salt: Appendix)|pages=166–168|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=p29DAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA168|oclc=753419711|passage=Thoſe therefore, who are moſt exact in pickling beef for exportation, [...] take their carcaſſes as ſoon as cold, and cut them into proper pieces; and after rubbing each piece carefully with good white ſalt, lay them on heaps in a cool cellar, in a '''drab''' with a ſhelving bottom, where they remain for four or five days, 'till the blood hath drained out of the larger veſſels.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Temple Henry Croker; Thomas Williams; Samuel Clark|entry=SALT|entryurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=nXEiAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP417|title=[[w:Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences|The Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. In which the Whole Circle of Human Learning is Explained.{{nb...|And the Difficulties Attending the Acquisition of Every Art, Whether Liberal or Mechanical, are Removed, in the Most Easy and Familiar Manner.}}]]|location=London|publisher=Printed for the authors, and sold by J. Wilson & J. Fell,{{nb...|Pater-noster Row; J. Fletcher & Co., St. Paul’s Church-yard; J. Coote, Pater-noster Row; Mess. Fletcher & Hodson, Cambridge; and W. Smith & Co., Dublin.}}|year=1765|volume=II|oclc=642390223|passage=When the ſalt is carried into the ſtore-houſe, it is put into '''drabs''', which are partitions, like ſtalls for horſes, lined at three ſides, and the bottom with boards, and having a ſliding-board on the foreſide to draw up on occaſion. The bottoms are made ſhelving, being higheſt at the back, and gradually inclining forwards; by this means the brine, remaining among the ſalt, eaſily ſeparates and runs from it, and the ſalt in three or four days becomes ſufficiently dry; [...]}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Abraham Rees|entry=SALT|entryurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=qERRAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA16-PA7-IA3|title=[[w:Rees's Cyclopædia|The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature. [...] In Thirty-nine Volumes]]|location=London|publisher=Printed for [[w:Longman|Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown]] [''et al.'']|year=1819|volume=XXXI|oclc=44125067|passage=In both caſes they let the ſalt remain in the pan till the whole is finiſhed; then they rake it out with wooden rakes, and after it has drained a-while in wooden '''drabs''', it is fit for uſe. The mother-brine, of which there always remains a large quantity in the pan after the ſtrong ſalt is made, as alſo the drainings of the '''drabs''' where the ſalt is put, is reſerved to be boiled up into table-ſalt; [...]}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=W[illia]m C. Dennis|title=Salt—Its Uses and Manufacture—Salt Meats. An Inquiry into the Defects of Common Salt in General Use in the United States for Curing Provisions, and on the Subject of Careless Packing and Management of Meats, etc, with Some Hints as to a Remedy|editor=[[w:J. D. B. De Bow|J[ames] D[unwoody] B[rownson] De Bow]]|magazine=[[w:De Bow's Review|De Bow’s Review and Industrial Resources, Statistics, etc.:{{nb...|Devoted to Commerce, Agriculture, Manufactures, Internal Improvements, Education, Political Economy, General Literature, etc.}}]]|location=New Orleans, La.; Washington, D.C.|publisher=[J. D. B. De Bow]|month=August|year=1857|volume=III (New Series; volume XXIII overall)|page=135|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=XdMsAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA135|oclc=9332366|passage=The Liverpool salt is made from the impure article that is found in the mines of Cheshire, which is transported in vast quantities down the River Mersey, and is dissolved in seawater on the left bank at extensive manufactories opposite to Liverpool. This impure pickle is drawn from the tanks, in which it is dissolved, into large shallow pans, and by a rapid process of boiling it is crystalized—drawn from the pans—the salt placed in '''drabs''' or baskets to drain, ready for another charge within 24 hours, except on Sundays; the charge in the pans is allowed 48 hours to crystalize and be drawn.}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|box used in a saltworks}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===Etymology 5===
Alteration of {{m|en|drag}}, possibly via the folk-etymological [[backronym]] "DRessed As a Girl" (with {{m|en|boy}} replacing {{m|en|girl}}).

====Noun====
{{en-noun|-}}

# {{senseid|en|presenting as AGAB}} {{lb|en|chiefly|transgender slang}} An instance of a [[transgender]] or [[non-binary]] person [[present]]ing as the [[gender]] corresponding to their [[sex]] [[assign]]ed at [[birth]] instead of that corresponding to their internal [[gender identity]] (for instance, a [[trans woman]] dressed as a [[man]]).
#* {{quote-web|en|author=Jocelyn Samara D.|title=Comic 278 - Ch. 12 - Drab|url=http://rain.thecomicseries.com/comics/278/|work=Rain|date=1 November 2012|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200121081120/http://rain.thecomicseries.com:80/comics/278/|archivedate=21 January 2020|accessdate=21 February 2021|text=Just for those who may not be aware of the term, “'''drab'''” is how you might describe a transgendered person (including transsexuals, crossdressers, drag queens, etc.) that is presenting as their birth sex. For instance, if Rain is dressed as a boy, she is dressed in “'''drab'''”. My original idea had Ruby on this page too, but that took away from the “'''drab'''” theme.}}

=====Usage notes=====
In this sense, {{m|en|drab}} usually (though not always) refers to a trans woman presenting as a man.

===References===
<references />

===Further reading===
* {{pedia|drab (color)}}
* {{pedia|drab|drab (disambiguation)}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=abdr|Bard|darb|bard|BARD|brad|Brad}}

{{C|en|Appearance|People|Prostitution|Transgender}}

==Danish==

===Etymology===
From {{inh|da|non|dráp||killing}}, from {{inh|da|non|drepa||to hit; to kill}}, from {{inh|da|gem-pro|*drepaną}}, from {{der|da|ine-pro|*dhrebh-}}. Compare {{cog|is|dráp}}, {{cog|sv|dråp}}.

===Pronunciation===
{{rfp|da}}
* {{audio|da|LL-Q9035 (dan)-Huggywuggyy-drab.wav}}

===Noun===
{{da-noun|et}}

# {{lb|da|crime}} [[homicide]]

====Declension====
{{da-noun-infl|et}}

====Related terms====
* {{l|da|mord}}
* {{l|da|manddrab}}

===References===
* {{R:Den Danske Ordbog}}
* {{R:ODS online}}

==Dutch==

===Etymology===
{{unc|nl}}, but probably related to {{cog|nl|draf|t=dregs}} (from {{cog|gem-pro|*drabaz}}). Compare {{cog|nds|drabbe|t=silt}}.

First attested as {{cog|nl|drabbe|t=sediment}} in 1599.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|nl|/drɑp/}}
* {{audio|nl|Nl-drab.ogg}}
* {{hyphenation|nl|drab}}
* {{rhymes|nl|ɑp}}

===Noun===
{{nl-noun|f|g2=n|-|+}}

# [[sediment]], [[dregs]]
# [[goop]], [[filth]]

==Old Polish==

===Etymology===
{{inh+|zlw-opl|sla-pro|*drabъ|*drabь}}. {{etydate|fifteenth century}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{zlw-opl-IPA|dra:b́}}

===Noun===
{{zlw-opl-noun|f}}

# [[ladder]]
#* {{RQ:zlw-opl:BZ|Gen|28, 12|Y wydzal gest we znye '''drab''' stoyøcz na zemyø (viditque in somnis scalam stantem super terram), koncem nyeba dosyøgayøcz, a angyoli boze s nyey wstøpuyøcz y støpuyøcz po nyey|I widział jest we śnie '''drab''' stojąc na ziemie, końcem nieba dosięgając a anjoły boże [s niej] wstępując i zstępując po niej.|And he saw in his sleep a '''ladder''' standing on the earth, with its end reaching Heaven and heavenly angels climbing and descending on it.}}
# {{lb|zlw-opl|attested in|Lesser Poland}} {{def-uncertain|zlw-opl}}
## [[ladder]] [[cart]]
##* {{RQ:zlw-opl:Sąd|II|342|1499|Plaustrum al. '''drab'''|Plaustrum al. '''drab'''|-}}

====Descendants====
* {{desc|pl-mas|drabia}}
* {{desc|pl|drabka|der=1|qq=regional}}
* {{desc|szl|drabka|der=1}}

===References===
* {{R:zlw-opl:SPJSP|drab|2029}}

{{C|zlw-opl|Tools|Vehicles}}

==Polish==

===Etymology===
{{bor+|pl|zlw-ocs|dráb}}, from {{der|pl|gmh|drabant}}, {{m|gmh|trabant}}. {{dbt|pl|drabant|trabant}}.

===Pronunciation===
{{pl-pr|a=LL-Q809 (pol)-Poemat-drab.wav|hh=drap|mp=dráb́}}

===Noun===
{{pl-noun|m-pr|dim=drabik<q:rare>|aug=drabisko}}

# {{lb|pl|colloquial|pejorative}} large, [[imposing]] man
# {{lb|pl|obsolete|military}} [[footman]], [[foot soldier]], [[henchman]], [[servant]]
#: {{syn|pl|pachołek|piechur|sługa}}

====Declension====
{{pl-decl-noun-m-pr|dra|b|drabi/drabowie/draby}}

===Noun===
{{pl-noun|m-anml}}

# {{lb|pl|obsolete|chess}} [[pawn]]
#: {{syn|pl|pionek}}

====Declension====
{{pl-decl-noun-m-anml}}

====Derived terms====
{{col-auto|pl|title=adjective|drabi}}
{{col-auto|pl|title=noun|draby}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:pl:WSJP}}
* {{R:pl:PWN}}
* {{R:wsource|pl|Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego/drab}}

{{C|pl|Male people|Occupations}}

==Romani==

===Etymology===
{{inh+|rom|pra|𑀤𑀯𑁆𑀯}}, from {{inh|rom|sa|द्रव्य}}. Cognate with {{cog|sd|ڊَڀُ|tr=ḍrabhu|t=eye medicine}}, {{cog|or|ଡାବ|t=prescription}}.

===Noun===
{{head|rom|noun|g=m}}

# [[medicine]]
# [[root]]

====Descendants====
* {{desc|ru|драп|t=marijuana|bor=1}}

===References===
* {{R:CDIAL|dravya|6625|pg=378}}

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