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dauber

noun
/ˈdɔːbə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From Middle English daubere, equivalent to daub + -er.

  1. inherited from daubere

Definitions

  1. One who, or that which, daubs

    One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.

    • After he had exerted all his powers to produce a masterpiece of art, the canons, upon viewing the picture, pronounced it a contemptible performance, and the artist a miserable dauber; and Vandyck could hardly obtain payment for his work.
    • I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a common-place dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
    • I'm not a good painter; I'm a dauber who can get a good likeness. Van Gogh or Cézanne would never have made it; I was given a bottle of Beaujolais and a set of directions.

  2. A pad or ball of rags, covered with canvas, for inking plates.

  3. A type of thick marker pen used to mark a bingo card.

    • Said she wasn't going but she went still / Likes her gentlemen not to be gentle / Was it a Mecca dauber or a betting pencil?
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A low and gross flatterer.

    2. The mud wasp

      The mud wasp; the mud dauber.

    3. A surname from German.

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