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dauby

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daub

  [dawb]
Use dauby in a Sentence
–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.
–noun
7. material, esp. 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.) ME dauben < AF, OF dauber to whiten, paint < L dealbāre, equiv. to de-, prevocalic var. of dē- de- + albāre to whiten, deriv. of albus white; (n.) late ME, deriv. of the v.

Related forms:
dauber, noun
daub⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
dauby, adjective
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