dabbler

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

dabbler
    n 1: an amateur who engages in an activity without serious
         intentions and who pretends to have knowledge [syn:
         {dabbler}, {dilettante}, {sciolist}]
    2: any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and
       dabbling [syn: {dabbling duck}, {dabbler}] [ant: {diving
       duck}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Dabbler \Dab"bler\ (d[a^]b"bl[~e]r), n.
   1. One who dabbles.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. One who dips slightly into anything; a superficial
      meddler. "our dabblers in politics." --Swift.
      [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

36 Moby Thesaurus words for "dabbler":
      Sunday painter, abecedarian, amateur, coquet, criticaster, dabster,
      dallier, dilettante, dunce, flirt, fool, fribble, grammaticaster,
      greenhorn, greeny, half scholar, ignoramus, illiterate, illiterati,
      know-nothing, lowbrow, middlebrow, no scholar, nonprofessional,
      philologaster, philosophaster, piddler, potterer, puddinghead,
      putterer, sciolist, smatterer, tenderfoot, trifler, tyro,
      unintelligentsia

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