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Daub is defined as covering or smearing with paint or something sticky or grease.

(verb)

An example of daub is to wipe butter all over a pan.

The definition of a daub is something covered in stickiness or greasiness.

(noun)

An example of a daub is a spot on the ground where oil spilled.

See daub in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb, intransitive verb

to cover or smear with sticky, soft matter, such as plaster or grease
to smear (plaster, grease, etc.) on
to paint coarsely or unskillfully

Origin: ME dauben < OFr dauber, to whiten, whitewash < L dealbare, to whiten, whitewash < de-, intens. + albus, white: see album

noun

anything daubed on
a daubing stroke or splash
a poorly painted picture

Related Forms:

dauber noun

See daub in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb daubed, daub·ing, daubs

verb, transitive

To cover or smear with a soft adhesive substance such as plaster, grease, or mud.
To apply paint to (a surface) with hasty or crude strokes.
To apply with quick or crude strokes: daubed glue on the paper.

verb, intransitive

To apply paint or coloring with crude, unskillful strokes.
To make crude or amateurish paintings.
To daub a sticky material.

noun

The act or a stroke of daubing.
A soft adhesive coating material such as plaster, grease, or mud.
Matter daubed on.
A crude, amateurish painting or picture.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English dauben

Origin: , from Old French dauber

Origin: , from Latin dēalbāre, to whitewash

Origin: : dē-, intensive pref.; see de-

Origin: + albus, white; see albho- in Indo-European roots

Related Forms:

daubˈer noun

daubˈer·y (dôˈbə-rē) noun

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