Dauber

Quick meaning: Dauber is a noun meaning (derogatory) One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.

Meaning

(derogatory) One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.

More Meanings

1. (copperplate printing) A pad or ball of rags, covered with canvas, for inking plates.
2. A type of thick marker pen used to mark a bingo card.
3. The mud wasp; the mud dauber.
4. (archaic) A low and gross flatterer.

Example Sentences

I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a common-place dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

Said she wasn't going but she went still / Likes her gentlemen not to be gentle / Was it a Mecca dauber or a betting pencil?

I'm not a good painter; I'm a dauber who can get a good likeness. Van Gogh or Cézanne would never have made it; I was given a bottle of Beaujolais and a set of directions.

After he had exerted all his powers to produce a masterpiece of art, the canons, upon viewing the picture, pronounced it a contemptible performance, and the artist a miserable dauber; and Vandyck could hardly obtain payment for his work.

Word Forms

• daubers

Synonyms for dauber

Depending on context, synonyms include alcatote, botcher, bumbler, bungler, blunderer, blunderhead.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wasp, mud, wasps, dawber, dabber, daubster.

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