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daub

noun
/dɔːb/UK/dɔb/US

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.

  1. derived from dealbāre — “to whiten thoroughly”
  2. derived from dauber — “to whitewash; plaster”
  3. derived from dauben — “to plaster or whitewash; cover with clay; bespatter”
  4. inherited from daub

Definitions

  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.

    • 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?
  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.

      • 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.

    2. To paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner.

      • […] a lame, imperfect Piece, rudely daub’d over with too little Reflection and too much haste.
      • If a Picture is daub’d with many bright and glaring Colours, the vulgar Eye admires it as an excellent Piece […]

    3. To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior

      To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.

      • So smooth he daub’d his vice with show of virtue,
      • No flattering praises daub my stone, My frailties and my faults to hide;

    4. To flatter excessively or grossly.

      • I can safely say, however, that without any daubing at all, I am, very sincerely, Your very affectionate, humble servant,

    5. To put on without taste

      To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.

      • […] whenever they came in order to pay those islanders a visit, [they] were generally very well dressed, and very poor, daubed with lace, but all the gilding on the outside.

    6. To mark spots on a bingo card, using a dauber.

    7. A surname.

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Derived

wattle and daub, bedaub, daubable, dauber, daubery, daubingly, daubster, dauby, redaub, undaubed

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at daub. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at daub. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at daub

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA