Meaning

Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

Ah, but what if he penned what in the art schools they call an 'artist's statement' wherein he explained the relation of his gibberish or his daubs to the mainstream of art or writing?

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 […]

[…] 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.

An artist friend fitted her out with his castoff palettes, brushes, and colors, and she daubed away, producing pastoral and marine views such as were never seen on land or sea.

[…] as he watched, [the motorcar] came up the snow-covered road, green and brown painted, in broken patches of daubed color, the windows blued over so that you could not see in […]

Blood was running to her shoe, and her stocking was torn in a jagged hole. […] she wet toilet paper and daubed until the red was gone from her stocking, but the red kept coming.

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

Word Forms

• daubs
• daubing
• daubed

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