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dauber

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daub  (dôb)
v. daubed, daub·ing, daubs
v.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.
v.intr.
1. To apply paint or coloring with crude, unskillful strokes.
2. To make crude or amateurish paintings.
3. To daub a sticky material.
n.
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.

[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.]

dauber n.
dauber·y (dôb-r) n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.dauber - an unskilled painter
painter - an artist who paints
Translations
dauber [ˈdɔːbəʳ] daubster [ˈdɔːbstəʳ] Npintor(a) m/f de brocha gorda, mal(a)pintor(a) m/f
dauber
n (pej)Kleckser(in) m(f)


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