单词 | daub |
释义 | daubn. 1. a. Material for daubing walls, etc.; plaster, rough mortar; clay or mud mixed with stubble or chaff, used with laths or wattle to form the walls of cottages, huts, etc. Hence wattle and daub (also dab). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > plaster > [noun] > plaster mixed with stubble daub1446 dab1833 1446 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 82 Item for ryses for the dawbes..ij d. 1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 514 Payd..for bryngyng of dawbe and cley in to the said castell. 1587 in Court Leet Rec. Manch. (1885) II. 18 For ye cariage of any mucke, dunge, dawbe, clay. 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xxx. 74 The soyle..which, with water..they make into Clay, or a certaine dawbe. 1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. xix. 369 Traders' houses..built of wattle and daub. 1876 R. F. Burton Two Trips Gorilla Land II. 22 Heaps of filthy hovels, wattle and daub and dingy thatch. 1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) 279 A raddle and dobe house. b. Anything that is daubed or smeared on. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > [noun] > smearing or spreading with a substance > that which is smeared or spread beplastering1598 smear1611 daub1693 schmear1958 1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vi. 112 She duely, once a Month, renews her Face; Mean time, it lies in Dawb, and hid in Grease. c. figurative. Insincere compliments, flattery. dialect. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > [noun] fickling?c1225 flattering?c1225 oluhningc1225 glozec1290 glozing1297 losengery1303 blandishingc1305 blandingc1315 flatteryc1320 glotheringc1325 soothinga1400 honey word?1406 faginga1425 flatrisec1440 smekingc1440 blandishc1475 blandiment?1510 glavering1545 coggingc1555 good1563 milksop1577 court holy water1583 glavery1583 blandishment1591 lipsalve1591 court holy bread1592 flatter1593 colloguing1596 sooth1597 daub?1602 blandation1605 lullaby1611 court-water1616 butter1618 blandiloquy1623 oil1645 court-element1649 courtshipment1649 courtship1655 blandiloquence1656 court-creama1657 daubing1656 fleecha1700 Spanish money1699 cajole1719 whiting1721 palaver1733 butter boat1747 flummery1749 treacle1771 Spanish coin1785 blancmange1790 blarney1796 soft corn1814 whillywha1816 carney1818 buttering up1819 soft soap1821 flam1825 slaver1825 soft solder1836 soothing syrup1839 soft-soaping1840 plámás1853 sawder1854 soap1854 salve1859 taffy1878 plámásing1897 flannel1927 smarm1937 flannelling1945 sweet talk1945 schmear1950 smarming1950 ?1602 Narcissus (MS Bodl. Rawl. poet. 212) (1893) Though with the dawbe of prayse I am loath to lome her. 1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness Daub, hypocritical affection. 2. An act or instance of daubing. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > [noun] > smearing or spreading with a substance > act or instance of daub1669 1669 A. Browne Ars Pictoria (1675) 82 And with two or three dawbes of your great Pencil, lay it on in an instant. 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 256 (Jam.) Many a time have I gotten a wipe with a towel; but never a daub with a dishclout before. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Daub o' t' hand, a bribe; compensation. ‘They got a daub o' t' hand for 't.’ 3. A patch or smear of some moist substance, grease, colouring, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [noun] > smeared condition > smear blur1601 smear1611 daub1731 smudgea1774 clart1808 slake1818 smooch1825 1731 J. Swift Beautiful Young Nymph in Poems [She] must, before she goes to Bed, Rub off the Dawbs of White and Red. 1881 E. B. Tylor Anthropol. 418 Their bodies painted with black daubs. 4. A coarsely executed, inartistic painting. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > qualities or styles of painting > [noun] > painting badly or carelessly > work daubery1546 daubing1713 daub1761 scrabble1842 blotch1860 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. xii. 59 And did you step in, to take a look at the grand picture... 'Tis a melancholy daub! my Lord. 1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 285 That he discerns The difference of a Guido from a daub. 1839 F. Marryat Diary in Amer. I. 292 A large collection of daubs, called portraits of eminent personages. 1880 A. H. Huth Life & Writings H. T. Buckle I. i. 15 A coarse daub of a picture. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as daub-hole. ΚΠ 1848 S. Bamford Early Days (1859) i. 13 An old timber and daub house. 1875 Lanc. Gloss. Daub-hoil, daub-hole, a clay or marl pit. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). daubv. 1. transitive. In building, etc.: To coat or cover (a wall or building) with a layer of plaster, mortar, clay, or the like; to cover (laths or wattle) with a composition of clay or mud, and straw or hay, so as to form walls. (Cf. dab v.1 8.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > clad or cover [verb (transitive)] > plaster > with specific material daub1382 cloamc1460 rowcast1500 clay?1523 dab1577 roughcast1584 cloom1609 chunam1687 sparkle1805 harl1806 slub1823 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Lev. xiv. 42 With other cley the hows to be dawbid. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 313 Cleme hit [the ark] with clay comly with-inne, & alle þe endentur dryuen daube withouten. 1483 Cath. Angl. 102 Dobe, linere, illinere. 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes ii. xxxiv. 145 Thys bastylle muste be aduironned with hirdels aboute and dawbed thykke with erthe and clay thereupon. ?1521 A. Barclay Bk. Codrus & Mynalcas sig. Aivv Of his shepe cote, daube the walles rounde about. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 507/2 Daube up this wall a pace with plaster..I daube with lome that is tempered with heare or strawe. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 64 I will tread this vnboulted villaine into morter, and daube the walles of a iaques with him. View more context for this quotation c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 169 Little hutts and hovels the poor Live in Like Barnes..daub'd with mud-wall. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. 243 Stud and mud walling, building without bricks or stones, with posts and wattles, or laths daubed over with road-mud. 2. a. To plaster, close up, cover over, coat with some sticky or greasy substance, smear. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > coat or cover with a layer [verb (transitive)] > smear or spread with a substance smear971 dechea1000 cleamc1000 besmearc1050 clamc1380 glue1382 pargeta1398 overslame?1440 plaster?1440 beslab1481 strike1525 bestrike1527 streak1540 bedaub1558 spread1574 daub1598 paste1609 beplaster1611 circumlite1657 oblite1657 fata1661 gaum?1825 treacle1839 butter1882 slap1902 slather1941 nap1961 1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. vi. i. 95 Whose wrinckled furrows..Are dawbed full of Venice chalke. 1606 Bp. J. Hall Arte Diuine Medit. xxxii. 167 Take away this clay from mine eyes, wherewith alas they are so dawbed vp that they cannot see heauen. 1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid ii. xxviii. 190 She had been plaistered and dawbed with Salves a long time. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 337 We daub'd him all over..with Tar. 1832 R. Lander & J. Lander Jrnl. Exped. Niger II. viii. 26 The women daub their hair with red clay. b. To smear or lay on (a moist or sticky substance). Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > coat or cover with a layer [verb (transitive)] > smear or spread with a substance > smear (a substance) cleamc1000 smeara1400 spread?a1425 strike1525 splet1530 dab1592 stroke1594 sponge1607 daub1647 wipe1738 plaster1799 teerc1850 slather1866 cake1944 1647 T. Fuller Cause Wounded Conscience vi. 37 For comfort dawbed on..will not stick long upon it. 1728 E. Smith Compl. Housewife (ed. 2) 265 With a fine Rag daub it often on the Face and Hands. c. To bribe, ‘grease’. slang (Cf. quot. 1876 at daub n. 2.) ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [verb (transitive)] > bribe meedOE underorna1325 corrump1387 forbuy1393 hirec1400 wage1461 fee1487 under-arearc1503 bribe1528 grease1528 money1528 corrupt1548 budc1565 to feed with money1567 to put out a person's eyes with (a gift, bribe, etc.)1580 sweeten1594 to grease the fist or (one) in the fist1598 over-bribe1619 to buy off1629 palter1641 to take off1646 buy1652 overmoneya1661 bub1684 to speak to ——1687 to tickle in the palm1694 daub1699 overbuy1710 touch1752 palm1767 to get at ——1780 fix1790 subsidize1793 sop1837 to buy over1848 backsheesh1850 nobble1856 square1859 hippodrome1866 see1867 boodleize1883 boodle1886 to get to ——1901 reach1906 straighten1923 lubricate1928 to keep (someone) sweet1939 sling1939 to pay off1942 bung1950 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Dawbing, bribing. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue at Dawb The cull was scragged [hanged] because he could not dawb. 3. To coat or cover with adhering dirt; to soil, bedaub. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)] sulec897 smitOE soil1297 besoila1300 bysulpc1400 smudgec1430 dauba1450 smirch1495 smotter1513 suddle1513 smada1525 coinquinatea1529 puddle1535 moil1575 smut1587 sud1593 sully1601 coninquinate1609 smirch1615 smutcha1616 beslurry1627 besullya1645 smoot1683 besmircha1700 be-smutch1832 guggle1866 dirten1906 a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 31 Her heles, the whiche is doubed with filthe. 1535 G. Joye Apol. Tindale 50 Dawbing eche other with dirte and myer. 1651 C. Cartwright Certamen Religiosum i. 5 Such..verities, as would have adorned, and not dawb'd the Gospel. 1661 S. Pepys Diary 30 Sept. (1970) II. 189 Having been very much dawbed with dirt, I got a coach and home. 1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 209 The Fall plunged me into a Puddle..and daubed me. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 257 Filthy metal that one could not touch without daubing one's fingers. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. iii. 90 To daub himself with ink up to the very roots of his hair. 1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet I. xi. 243 My name is too deeply daubed with the Fleet mud; it cannot be cleansed. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > write in specific style [verb (transitive)] > illegibly or untidily > cover with blota1513 scribble1540 daub1589 bescrawl1641 scrawl1647 bescribble1807 overscrawl1871 1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Epitome (1843) 6 When men have a gift in writing, howe easie it is for them to daube paper. a1618 W. Bradshaw Unreasonableness Separation (1640) 81 In the proofe of the Assumption he daubs sixe pages. 1803 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) I. 7 The latter loss, to one who daubs so much, is nothing. 5. In painting: To lay on (colours) in a crude or clumsy fashion; to paint coarsely and inartistically. Also absol. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > qualities or styles of painting > [verb (transitive)] > paint badly or carelessly glair1563 daub1630 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > colour [verb (transitive)] > lay on a colour > apply crudely daub1630 smudge1901 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > qualities or styles of painting > [verb (intransitive)] > paint badly or carelessly blot1844 daub1867 1630 [implied in: S. D'Ewes Jrnl. Parl. (1783) 67 This daubed piece..the face hath no similitude. (at daubed adj.)]. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. x. 394 A trovell will serve as well as a pencill to daub on such thick course colours. 1695 J. Dryden tr. C. A. Dufresnoy Art of Painting 201 A lame, imperfect Piece, rudely daub'd over with too little Reflection & too much haste. 1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France i. 78 The falsehood of the colours which..[Walpole] suffered to be daubed over that measure. 1840 T. Hood Up Rhine (ed. 2) Pref. p. vi It had been so often painted, not to say daubed, already. 1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset II. li. 77 He leaned upon his stick, and daubed away briskly at the background. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > ornament [verb (transitive)] > adorn cheaply or gaudily bedaub1581 plaster1585 daub1594 begaudy1640 betawder1682 tawder1716 bedizen1786 1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. C3v My wiues best gowne..how hansomly it was dawbed with statute lace. 1639 N. N. tr. J. Du Bosc Compl. Woman ii. 32 They dawb their habits with gold lace. 1760 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) III. 13 A person hugely daubed with gold. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Daub'd out, fantastically dressed. a. figurative. To cover with a specious exterior; to whitewash, cloak, gloss. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > excuse > excuse (a person or fault) [verb (transitive)] > extenuate whiteOE gloze1390 colourc1400 emplasterc1405 littlec1450 polish?c1450 daub1543 plaster1546 blanch1548 flatter1552 extenuate1570 alleviate1577 soothe1587 mincea1591 soothe1592 palliate1604 sweeten1635 rarefy1637 mitigate1651 glossa1656 whitewash1703 qualify1749 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > present speciously [verb (transitive)] > improve appearance paintc1390 set1540 daub1543 plaster1546 varnish1571 to gild over1574 adorn1589 parget1592 glaze1605 apparel1615 pranka1616 lustre1627 candidate1628 varnish1641 lacquer1688 whitewash1703 tinsel1748 duff1750 fineer1765 veneer1847 superficialize1851 gloss1879 window dress1913 beglamour1926 sportswash2012 1543 T. Becon Invect. against Swearing in Early Wks. (1843) 375 Perjury cannot escape unpunished, be it never so secretly handled and craftily daubed. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. v. 28 So smoothe he daubd his vice with shew of vertue. View more context for this quotation 1679 E. Young Serm. White-Hall 29 Dec. 1678 31 To dawb and palliate our faults, is but like keeping our selves in the dark. 1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 114 They dawb over their oppression with a submissive flattering carriage. 1760 S. Fielding Ophelia I. xxv. 207 The painted Canvas is most innocent; but the daubed Hypocrite most criminal.] ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare King Lear (1623) iv. i. 52 Poore Tom's a cold. I cannot daub it further. 1619 W. Whately Gods Husb. (1622) ii. 52 What auailed it Ananias and Saphira, to dawbe and counterfeit? 1619 W. Sclater Expos. 1 Thess. (1630) 288 With such idle distinctions doe they dawbe with conscience. 1650 R. Baxter Saints Everlasting Rest (1662) iii. xiii. 508 Do not daub with men, and hide from them their misery or danger. 1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 632 Let every one therefore attend the Sentence of his Conscience: For he may be sure, it will not dawb, nor flatter. c. To pay court with flattery. dialect. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > have an appearance of, dissemble [verb (intransitive)] to make semblant1470 to make semblancea1500 face1566 daub1876 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Daubing..paying court for the sake of advantage. 1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness Daub, to flatter, or besmear with false compliment, with the object of gaining some advantage. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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