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dauber
daub D0037200 (dôb)v. daubed, daub·ing, daubs v.tr.1. To cover or smear with a soft adhesive substance such as plaster, grease, or mud.2. To apply paint to (a surface) with hasty or crude strokes.3. To apply with quick or crude strokes: daubed glue on the paper.v.intr.1. To apply paint or coloring with crude, unskillful strokes.2. To make crude or amateurish paintings.3. To daub a sticky material.n.1. The act or a stroke of daubing.2. A soft adhesive coating material such as plaster, grease, or mud.3. Matter daubed on.4. A crude, amateurish painting or picture.
[Middle English dauben, from Old French dauber, from Latin dēalbāre, to whitewash : dē-, intensive pref.; see de- + albus, white; see albho- in Indo-European roots.]
daub′er n.daub′er·y (dô′bə-rē) n.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | dauber - an unskilled painterpainter - an artist who paints |
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