Daub

Quick meaning: Daub is a noun meaning Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction.

Meaning

Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction.

More Meanings

1. A soft coating of mud, plaster, etc.
2. A crude or amateurish painting.
3. (intransitive, transitive) To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.
4. (transitive) To paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To flatter excessively or grossly.
7. (transitive, obsolete) To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.

Example Sentences

The artist just seemed to daub on paint at random and suddenly there was a painting.

[…] she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch […]

They were expecting to see me, she said, daubing paint on the canvas and stepping back to gauge the effect.

[…] Mrs. Gibson could not well come up to the girl’s bedroom every night and see that she daubed her face and neck over with the cosmetics so carefully provided for her.

Word Forms

• daubs
• daubing
• daubed

Synonyms for daub

Depending on context, synonyms include apply, coat, cover, plaster, smear, slur.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include plaster, spot, smear, blot, smudge, smirch.

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