drab

Plural: drabs

Noun

a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown
A fabric, usually of thick cotton or wool, having a dull brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun colour.
The color of this fabric.
Often in the plural form drabs: apparel, especially trousers, made from this fabric.
A dull or uninteresting appearance or situation, unremarkable.
A dirty or untidy woman; a slattern.
A promiscuous woman, a slut; a prostitute.
A small amount, especially of money.
A box used in a saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
An instance of a transgender or non-binary person presenting as the gender corresponding to their sex assigned at birth instead of that corresponding to their internal gender identity (most commonly a trans woman dressed as a man).
Poison.

Adjective Satellite

lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
- "her drab personality"
- "life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas"
lacking brightness or color; dull
- "drab faded curtains"
of a light brownish green color
causing dejection

Adj

Of the color of some types of drabcloth: dull brownish yellow or dun.
Particularly of color: dull, uninteresting.

Verb

Verb Forms: drabbed, drabbing, drabs

To associate with prostitutes.
To consort with prostitutes; to whore.
To poison.

Adjective

Lacking brightness or interest; dull and cheerless.

Examples

His opening move felt drab, offering no immediate high-scoring possibilities.
Some old words, like DRAB as a verb, have surprisingly uncommon definitions.

Origin / Etymology

Probably from Middle French and Old French drap (“cloth”), either:
* from Late Latin drappus (“drabcloth, kerchief; piece of cloth”), most likely from Gaulish *drappo, from Proto-Indo-European *drep- (“to scratch, tear”); or
* from Frankish *drapi, *drāpi (“that which is fulled, drabcloth”), from Proto-Germanic *drap-, *drēp- (“something beaten”), from *drepaną (“to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrebʰ- (“to beat, crush; to make or become thick”).
The English word is cognate with Ancient Greek δρέπω (drépō, “to pluck”), Avestan 𐬛𐬭𐬀𐬟𐬱𐬀 (drafša, “banner, flag”), Lithuanian drãpanos (“household linens”), Old Norse trefja (“to rub, wear out”), trof (“fringes”), Sanskrit द्रापि (drāpi, “mantle, gown”), Serbo-Croatian drápati (“to scratch, scrape”)).

Synonyms

blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, olive drab, olive-drab, sober, somber, sombre, sorry, 'ho, 304, Athanasian wench, Bankside lady, Covent Garden nun, Cyprian, Dutch widow, Essex girl, Fulham virgin, GRO, Haymarket ware, Japayuki-san, KTV girl, LBFM, NB: All terms are usually pejorative unless stated otherwise., Paphian, Quicumque vult, Suzi Wong, Suzie Wong, Suzy Wong, abandons, alley cat, alleycat, almah, amoret, amorette, amorosa, article, bangtail, bargirl, bat, beotch, blouze, blowen, blowsabella, bop, brass, brass nail, brasser, broad, business girl, calico queen, callet, cat, chippy, chromo, coaster, cockatrice, cockslut, cockwhore, cocotte, comfort girl, comfort woman, commoner, creature of the night, croshabell, crumpet, cum dumpster, cumguzzler, cumhole, cumslut, cumwhore, daughter of joy, demimondaine, dollymop, doxy, drab, drabcloth, eager beaver, escort, fille de joie, flap, flirt-gill, floogy, floosie, floosy, floozie, floozy, fornicator, fornicatour, fornicatress, fornicatrix, frail sister, fuckstress, gamester, gay lady, geebag, giglot, gill, gillian, girl rented overnight, good-time girl, grisette, hackney, harlot, hireling, ho, ho bag, ho-bag, hoe, hoe bag, hoe-bag, hoer, hoochie, hoochie mama, hood rat, hook, hooker, hussy, hustler, jade, jay, jillflirt, karayuki-san, laced mutton, lady of leisure, lady of light virtue, lady of pleasure, lady of the evening, lady of the night, light-o'-love, light-of-love, lightskirt, little brown fucking machine, loose woman, lorette, lot lizard, mab, manizer, meat puppet, meretrix, mermaid, minx, mob, moll, mort wap-apace, mot, mud kicker, mud-kicker, mudkicker, musk cat, mutton, nun, nymph of darkness, nymph of the pavement, nymph of the pavé, nymphomaniac, painted Jezebel, painted lady, party girl, pavement princess, perdita, pimpette, pretty horsebreaker, priestess of Venus, pro, pro skirt, pross, prossie, prossy, prostie, prostitute, prostitutor, prosty, prozzie, prozzy, public woman, pucelle, puella publica, pug, punk, pussygirl, put, puta, puzzel, quail, quean, quene, quiff, ribibe, rig, scag, scrubber, sex labourer, sex worker, skainsmate, skank, sket, skettle, skit, skivvy, slag, slapper, slattern, slit, sloven, slut, slutbag, sodomitess, soiled dove, stale, stem siren, stew, streel, street taco, strumpet, succubus, sweet cheeks, tart, tartlet, tawaif, thot, thotty, tib, tom, town bicycle, town bike, tramp, treddle, trick turner, trollop, trug, trull, tweak, vice girl, village bicycle, village bike, wagon, waistcoateer, wanton, wapping dell, wapping moll, wapping mort, wench, whore, woman of easy virtue, woman of ill fame, woman of ill repute, woman of the night, woman of the street, woman of the town, working girl

Scrabble Score: 7

drab: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
drab: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
drab: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

drab: valid Words With Friends Word