Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which daubs. Specifically— One who builds walls with clay or mud mixed with straw.
- n. A coarse, ignorant painter.
- n. A low and gross flatterer.
- n. A copperplate-printers' pad, consisting of rags firmly tied together and covered over with a piece of canvas, for inking plates
- n. A mud-wasp: from the way in which it daubs mud in building its nest.
- n. The brush used to spread blacking upon shoes, as distinguished from the polisher, or brush used for polishing; they are sometimes combined in one.
- n. A heavy round brush of rice-root, sharpened to a round point, used for cleaning out the corners of a carriage.
Wiktionary
- n. One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.
- n. (Copperplate Print.) A pad or ball of rags, covered over with canvas, for inking plates; a dabber.
- n. A low and gross flatterer.
- n. (Zoöl.) The mud wasp; the mud dauber.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an unskilled painter
Etymologies
- to daub + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Parrocel, whom you call a dauber, and who for that matter is a dauber, if you compare him to Vernet, is still a man of rare talent relatively to the multitude of those who have flung up the career in which they started with him. ”
“I actually inked the flowers in Soft Suede ink and then used my sponge dauber to added the Champagne mist to the flower in a couple of spots before I stamped the image.”
“I sponged them onto the stamps using a sponge dauber.”
“This was such an audacious creative conceit that the painter was mistaken for a naïve dauber, where in fact he could create among his works psychogeographic masterpieces that captured the cultural murk of the postwar scene.”
“My mother, clutching her bingo dauber, looked skeptical.”
“After all, a skilled clothing designer is a sculptor in fabric and, to some extent, in flesh, while this Skut was, to the best of our knowledge, only a dauber of particoloured clays who apparently got his jollies from looking at various beasts.”
“It was an elephant forty feet high, constructed of timber and masonry, bearing on its back a tower which resembled a house, formerly painted green by some dauber, and now painted black by heaven, the wind, and time.”
“I read the news of your latest defeats and your latest victories, and I read the rest of the stories, and when it came time to vote, I hovered over the line of circles matched up to names, and, slowly, consciously, I lowered the ink dauber onto the little circle next to a man's name.”
“Staring at my ink dauber and that line of little circles in the booklet, I stamped my mark on a man's name.”
“I was the ingnu dauber, pale, skinny, almost innocent.”
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