Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To cover or smear with a soft adhesive substance such as plaster, grease, or mud.
- transitive v. To apply paint to (a surface) with hasty or crude strokes.
- transitive v. To apply with quick or crude strokes: daubed glue on the paper.
- intransitive v. To apply paint or coloring with crude, unskillful strokes.
- intransitive v. To make crude or amateurish paintings.
- intransitive v. To daub a sticky material.
- n. The act or a stroke of daubing.
- n. A soft adhesive coating material such as plaster, grease, or mud.
- n. Matter daubed on.
- n. A crude, amateurish painting or picture.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction (compare wattle and daub).
- n. A soft coating of mud, plaster, etc.
- n. A crude or amateurish painting.
- v. To apply something to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- transitive v. To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.
- transitive v. To paint in a coarse or unskillful manner.
- transitive v. To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
- transitive v. To flatter excessively or glossy.
- transitive v. To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.
- intransitive v. To smear; to play the flatterer.
- n. A viscous, sticky application; a spot smeared or daubed; a smear.
- n. A picture coarsely executed.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
- n. A cheap kind of mortar; plaster made of mud.
- n. A viscous, adhesive application; a smear.
- n. A daubing or smearing stroke.
- n. A coarse, inartistic painting.
- n. In coloring enameled leather, a thick black substance put on as a first coat to fill the surface in preparation for the final coloring.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it
- v. apply to a surface
- n. an unskillful painting
- v. coat with plaster
- n. a blemish made by dirt
- n. material used to daub walls
Etymologies
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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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.
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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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This is no longer just a small group of criminals and vandals who are out to burn or daub inflammatory graffiti on the walls of Palestinian Mosques or vandalize an Israeli military base.
Alon Ben-Meir: The Settlers' Movement Is a Threat to Peace and Israel's Existence
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With ingenious acronyms, ethical dilemmas and a daub of mystery, their adventures should be almost as accessible to Scrabble neophytes as to aficionados.
chained_bear commented on the word daub
In architecture, mud coating-like plaster on a panel.
August 25, 2008