DAUB meaning: Apply paint or plaster carelessly

We found 35 dictionaries that define the word daub:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

daub: Merriam-Webster
daub: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
daub: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
daub: Collins English Dictionary
daub: Vocabulary.com
Daub, daub: Wordnik
daub: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Daub, daub: Wiktionary
daub: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
daub: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
daub: Infoplease Dictionary
Daub, daub: Dictionary.com
daub: Online Etymology Dictionary
daub: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Daub (disambiguation), Daub: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Daub: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
daub: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
daub: Rhymezone
daub: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
daub: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
daub: FreeDictionary.org
daub: Mnemonic Dictionary
daub: TheFreeDictionary.com
daub: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (3 matching dictionaries)

DAUB: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)
Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
Daub: Cooking Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

daub: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

Daub: Castle Terms
daub: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)

Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

daub, daub, daub, daub: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
daub: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction.
▸ noun:  A soft coating of mud, plaster, etc.
▸ noun:  A crude or amateurish painting.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, transitive) To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To flatter excessively or grossly.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.
▸ verb:  (transitive, bingo) To mark spots on a bingo card, using a dauber.
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:

plaster, spot, smudge, blot, smear, smirch, slur, dawb, daubster, daubery, more...

Opposite:

scrape, clean, polish, buff, sand

Types:

whitewash, plaster, stucco, rendering, more...

Phrases:

wattle and daub, John Daub, more...

Adjectives:

and, wattle, burned, mere, little, wretched, wattleand, red, vile, poor, coarse

Colors:

ochre, sienna, umber, vermilion, cerulean, more...