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.

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 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.

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Noun

dauber - an unskilled painter

painter - an artist who paints

Translations

klatmaler

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dauber

[ˈdɔːbəʳ] daubster [ˈdɔːbstəʳ] N → pintor(a) m/f de brocha gorda, mal(a) pintor(a) m/f

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dauber

n (pej) → Kleckser(in) m(f)

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I won't be a common-place dauber, so I don't intend to try any more."

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And what may a mechanic get -- carpenter, dauber, mason, painter, blacksmith, wheelwright, and the like?"

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Yes, it is so, my beloved, and you may believe an old man who has had many years of experience, and knows both the world and mankind, rather than a set of scribblers and daubers.

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