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/ dɔb / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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verb (used with object) to cover or coat with soft, adhesive matter, as plaster or mud: to daub a canvas with paint; to daub stone walls with mud.
to spread (plaster, mud, etc.) on or over something: to daub plaster on a brick wall.
to smear, soil, or defile.
to apply, as paint or colors, unskillfully.
SEE MORE SEE LESS verb (used without object) to daub something.
to paint unskillfully.
noun material, especially of an inferior kind, for daubing walls.
something daubed on.
an act of daubing.
a crude, inartistic painting.
SEE MORE SEE LESS Origin of daub 1275–1325; (v.) Middle English
dauben <Anglo-French, Old French
dauber to whiten, paint <Latin
dealbāre, equivalent to
de-, prevocalic variant of
dē- de- +
albāre to whiten, derivative of
albus white; (noun) late Middle English, derivative of the v.
OTHER WORDS FROM daub dauber, noun daub·ing·ly, adverb dauby, adjective un·daubed, adjective Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020
Example sentences from the Web for daub The same cottage, now daub ed with graffiti calling Savile “a beast,” has been the focus of police investigations.
Jimmy Savile Sex-Abuse Scandal Taints Entire Era in Britain | Peter Jukes| October 31, 2012| DAILY BEAST
Slogans reading “Death to Christians” and other offensive graffiti were daub ed on its walls.
Vatican Official Blasts Extremists in Israel After Monastery Attack | The Telegraph| September 9, 2012| DAILY BEAST
They daub ed it with mud that seemed to refresh itself from a pool that was hollowed in the floor.
In the Heart of a Fool | William Allen White
His clear, delicate colours were put upon a canvas first daub ed with oil, and he never cleaned his palette.
Pictures Every Child Should Know | Dolores Bacon
It was a little one room log cabin, chinked and daub ed, and you couldn't stir us with a stick.
Slave Narratives, Oklahoma | Various
To waste a little more time, she entered to say a prayer under the old cramped porch, worn away and daub ed over with whitewash.
An Iceland Fisherman | Pierre Loti
Then they daub ed my face and hands with a sweet-smelling ointment, which in a few minutes removed all the smart of the arrows.
Every Girl's Library, Volume 8 of 10 | Various
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British Dictionary definitions for daub verb (tr) to smear or spread (paint, mud, etc), esp carelessly
(tr) to cover or coat (with paint, plaster, etc) carelessly
to paint (a picture) clumsily or badly
noun an unskilful or crude painting
something daubed on, esp as a wall covering See also wattle and daub
a smear (of paint, mud, etc)
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Derived forms of daub dauber , noun dauby , adjective Word Origin for daub C14: from Old French dauber to paint, whitewash, from Latin dealbāre, from albāre to whiten, from albus white
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Words related to daub deface, smear, spatter, smudge, dab, sully, smirch, speckle, besmear, spot, plaster, grime, cover, varnish, splatter, paint, spread, fleck, dirty, variegate