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.
- noun A viscous, sticky application; a spot smeared or daubed; a smear.
- noun (Paint.) A picture coarsely executed.
- 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.
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.
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I think it was shortly after this little adventure that I added another "daub" to my "gallery."
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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.
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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.
chained_bear commented on the word daub
In architecture, mud coating-like plaster on a panel.
August 25, 2008