dab

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

One who is expert in anything; a proficient. A vulgar colloquialism in England and America.

One writer excels at a plan, or title-page; another works away at the body of the book; and the third is a dab at an index.--Goldsmith.

He's sich a dabster at a plough,

Few match'd him nigh or far.

Essex Dialect Poems.

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