Definition of daub

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daub    (dôb) KEY  

VERB:
daubed , daub·ing , daubs
VERB:
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.

VERB:
intr.

1. To apply paint or coloring with crude, unskillful strokes.
2. To make crude or amateurish paintings.
3. To daub a sticky material.

NOUN:

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.

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ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English dauben, from Old French dauber, from Latin dalbre, to whitewash : d-, intensive pref. ; see de- + albus, white; see albho- in Indo-European roots

OTHER FORMS:
dauber (Noun), dauber·y   (dôb-r) KEY  (Noun)

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