daub
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.
to daub something.
to paint unskillfully.
material, especially of an inferior kind, for daubing walls.
something daubed on.
an act of daubing.
a crude, inartistic painting.
Origin of daub
1Other words from daub
- dauber, noun
- daub·ing·ly, adverb
- dauby, adjective
- un·daubed, adjective
Words Nearby daub
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How to use daub in a sentence
Five field-seconds perfected by fog, duffel snuggled against melike a child, the wash of creamy daubs against green,then gone.
Five poems about the mind | Cynthia Miller, Paula Bohince, Anthony Anaxagorou, Tishani Doshi, Zeina Hashem Beck | August 25, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewHis parents daub it with anti-bacterial cream, hoping to prevent infection.
Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: Bordering on Disaster | Jamie Dettmer | November 11, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThat she is, but daub took the phone call to Hill at face value.
After law school, she joined daub full-time, working as his legislative assistant on issues like health care and Social Security.
Very little of the earlier buildings remained, as they all appear to have been built of wood and wattle-and-daub.
The Towns of Roman Britain | James Oliver Bevan
As for "wattle and daub" I could wish that it had never been invented.
Ten Books on Architecture | VitruviusA painter was made to paint a ring of blood around the neck and daub the clothes with red.
The Red City | S. Weir MitchellThere are good prints provided cheap, to hang in the place of the ancient sampler or daub.
How to Observe | Harriet MartineauThey daub one of these portions all over with charcoal, until it be perfectly black.
British Dictionary definitions for daub
/ (dɔːb) /
(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
an unskilful or crude painting
something daubed on, esp as a wall covering: See also wattle and daub
a smear (of paint, mud, etc)
the act of daubing
Origin of daub
1Derived forms of daub
- dauber, noun
- dauby, adjective
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