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 dēalbāre, to whitewash : dē-, intensive pref.; see DE- + albus, white; see albho- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] dauber n. dauber·y (dôbə-rē) n. |
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