daub

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English daub (noun), from Middle English dauben (“to plaster or whitewash; cover with clay; bespatter”, verb), from Old Northern French dauber (“to whitewash; plaster”), of uncertain origin. Probably from Latin dealbāre (“to whiten thoroughly”), which would make it a doublet of dealbate. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /dɔːb/ (US) IPA(key): /dɔb/, (cot–caught merger) /dɑb/ Rhymes: -ɔːb === Noun === daub (countable and uncountable, plural daubs) Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction. A soft coating of mud, plaster, etc. A crude or amateurish painting. ==== Derived terms ==== wattle and daub ==== Related terms ==== (dab): dab, pat, splat ==== Translations ==== === Verb === daub (third-person singular simple present daubs, present participle daubing, simple past and past participle daubed) (intransitive, transitive) To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes. Synonyms: apply, coat, cover, plaster, smear (transitive) To paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner. 1826, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, An Essay on Mind, Book I, in The Earlier Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1826-1833, London: Bartholomew Robson, 1878, pp. 25-26,[5] If some gay picture, vilely daubed, were seen With grass of azure, and a sky of green, Th’impatient laughter we’d suppress in vain, And deem the painter jesting, or insane. (transitive, obsolete) To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal. (transitive, obsolete) To flatter excessively or grossly. (transitive, obsolete) To put on without taste; to deck gaudily. 1697, John Dryden, “On the Three Dukes killing the Beadle on Sunday Morning, Febr. the 26th, 1670/1” in John Denham et al., Poems on affairs of state from the time of Oliver Cromwell, to the abdication of K. James the Second, London, p. 148,[8] Yet shall Whitehall the Innocent, the Good, See these men dance all daub’d with Lace and Blood. (transitive, bingo) To mark spots on a bingo card, using a dauber. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === dab === Further reading === daub on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === Buda, Duba, abud, baud