To cover or smear with a soft adhesive substance such as plaster, grease, or mud.
To apply paint to (a surface) with hasty or crude strokes.
To apply with quick or crude strokes: daubed glue on the paper.
v.
intr.
To apply paint or coloring with crude, unskillful strokes.
To make crude or amateurish paintings.
To daub a sticky material.
n.
The act or a stroke of daubing.
A soft adhesive coating material such as plaster, grease, or mud.
Matter daubed on.
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.
[daw-buh-ree] 
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