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daubable

adj

Etymology

From daub + -able.

  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
  5. suffixed as daubable — “daub + able”

Definitions

  1. Capable of being daubed, or painted onto a surface.

    • Surprises lie around every corner - from the topiary bull leaping over the wall (left), to the pyramid (right), made of old concrete blocks and covered in Peter's special mixture of daubable cement […]
    • Thus the whole mixture would be both fragrant and pourable/daubable.

  2. Capable of being daubed or painted upon.

    • The Italian enthusiasm for racing leads enthusiasts to daub the names of their favorite competitors on walls, on houses, on anything daubable.
    • School gyms and washrooms, primarily — but also lifeboats, smokestacks, and other daubable features on the superstructure of a Liberian oil tanker I sailed on for one summer.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for daubable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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