Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To cover or smear with a soft adhesive substance such as plaster, grease, or mud.
- intransitive verb To apply paint to (a surface) with hasty or crude strokes.
- intransitive verb To apply with quick or crude strokes.
- intransitive verb To apply paint or coloring with crude, unskillful strokes.
- intransitive verb To make crude or amateurish paintings.
- intransitive verb To daub a sticky material.
- noun The act or a stroke of daubing.
- noun A soft adhesive coating material such as plaster, grease, or mud.
- noun Matter daubed on.
- noun A crude, amateurish painting or picture.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In coloring enameled leather, a thick black substance put on as a first coat to fill the surface in preparation for the final coloring.
- To smear with soft adhesive matter; plaster; cover or coat with mud, slime, or other soft substance.
- To soil; defile; besmear.
- Hence To paint ignorantly, coarsely, or badly.
- To give a specious appearance to; patch up; disguise; conceal.
- To dress or adorn without taste; deck vulgarly or ostentatiously; load as with finery.
- noun A cheap kind of mortar; plaster made of mud.
- noun A viscous, adhesive application; a smear.
- noun A daubing or smearing stroke.
- noun A coarse, inartistic painting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To smear; to play the flatterer.
- transitive verb To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.
- transitive verb To paint in a coarse or unskillful manner.
- transitive verb To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
- transitive verb rare To flatter excessively or glossy.
- transitive verb rare To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.
- noun A viscous, sticky application; a spot smeared or daubed; a smear.
- noun (Paint.) A picture coarsely executed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction (compare
wattle and daub ). - noun A soft
coating ofmud ,plaster , etc. - noun A
crude oramateurish painting . - verb To apply something to a surface in
hasty orcrude strokes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it
- verb apply to a surface
- noun an unskillful painting
- verb coat with plaster
- noun a blemish made by dirt
- noun material used to daub walls
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I'd what you call daub the seams of the sheetrock and paint some.
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Mark began to feel that he really had done something praiseworthy, and that the "daub" was not so despicable after all.
Moods Louisa May Alcott 1860
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I think it was shortly after this little adventure that I added another "daub" to my "gallery."
Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville Prince De Joinville 1859
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If you be Sir _Harry Sprightly_, my Grand-Mother will be very angry when she hears how these Fellows ha 'daub'd my Cloaths.
The Fine Lady's Airs (1709) Thomas Baker 1704
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While the machine automatically marks the digital bingo card based on the bingo ball matches, you must tap a "daub" or "play" button once you see a winning bingo pattern.
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While the machine automatically marks the digital bingo card based on the bingo ball matches, you must tap a "daub" or "play" button once you see a winning bingo pattern.
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Right now she has an artist's brush, but is using it to half-heartedly daub a go-faster stripe along the side of her burgundy Vauxhall Meriva.
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Adding to the ritualistic atmosphere is the white gel that demonstrators daub on their cheeks and foreheads.
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Adding to the ritualistic atmosphere is the white gel that demonstrators daub on their cheeks and foreheads.
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She confesses to wearing an occasional daub of men's cologne so as to seem tomboyish and to using masking tape at night to flatten her bouncy curls.
The Scary Future, the Embarrassing Past Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011
chained_bear commented on the word daub
In architecture, mud coating-like plaster on a panel.
August 25, 2008