Daub

[dɔːb] or [dɔb]

Definition

(noun.) an unskillful painting.

(noun.) material used to daub walls.

(verb.) cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it; 'smear the wall with paint'; 'daub the ceiling with plaster'.

(verb.) apply to a surface; 'daub paint onto the wall'.

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Definition

(v. t.) To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.

(v. t.) To paint in a coarse or unskillful manner.

(v. t.) To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.

(v. t.) To flatter excessively or glossy.

(v. t.) To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.

(v. i.) To smear; to play the flatterer.

(n.) A viscous, sticky application; a spot smeared or dabed; a smear.

(n.) A picture coarsely executed.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Smear, besmear, plaster, cover, bedaub, begrime.

n. Coarse painting.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

[See BEDAUB]

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Definition

v.t. to smear: to paint coarsely.—n. a coarse painting.—ns. Daub′er one who daubs: a coarse painter; Daub′ery Daub′ry (Shak.) a daubing or crudely artful device; Daub′ing.—adj. Daub′y sticky.

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