dauber

[dawb] Origin

daub

[dawb]
verb (used with object)
1.
to cover or coat with soft, adhesive matter, as plaster or mud: to daub a canvas with paint; to daub stone walls with mud.
2.
to spread (plaster, mud, etc.) on or over something: to daub plaster on a brick wall.
3.
to smear, soil, or defile.
4.
to apply, as paint or colors, unskillfully.
verb (used without object)
5.
to daub something.
6.
to paint unskillfully.

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Dauber is always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
noun
7.
material, especially of an inferior kind, for daubing walls.
8.
something daubed on.
9.
an act of daubing.
10.
a crude, inartistic painting.

Origin:
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.

daub·er, noun
daub·ing·ly, adverb
daub·y, adjective
un·daubed, adjective
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daub (dɔːb)
 
vb
1.  (tr) to smear or spread (paint, mud, etc), esp carelessly
2.  (tr) to cover or coat (with paint, plaster, etc) carelessly
3.  to paint (a picture) clumsily or badly
 
n
4.  an unskilful or crude painting
5.  See also wattle and daub something daubed on, esp as a wall covering
6.  a smear (of paint, mud, etc)
7.  the act of daubing
 
[C14: from Old French dauber to paint, whitewash, from Latin dealbāre, from albāre to whiten, from albus white]
 
'dauber
 
n
 
'dauby
 
adj

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daub
early 14c., from O.Fr. dauber "to whitewash, plaster," probably from L. dealbare, from de- "thoroughly" + albare "to whiten," from albus "white." Painting sense is from 1630.
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