daub

v., daubed, daub·ing, daubs.

v.tr.

1. To cover or smear with a soft adhesive substance such as plaster, grease, or mud.
2. To apply paint to (a surface) with hasty or crude strokes.
3. To apply with quick or crude strokes: daubed glue on the paper.

v.intr.

1. To apply paint or coloring with crude, unskillful strokes.
2. To make crude or amateurish paintings.
3. To daub a sticky material.

n.

1. The act or a stroke of daubing.
2. A soft adhesive coating material such as plaster, grease, or mud.
3. Matter daubed on.
4. A crude, amateurish painting or picture.

[Middle English dauben, from Old French dauber, from Latin dēalbāre, to whitewash : dē-, intensive pref.; see de- + albus, white.]

dauber daub'er n.
daubery daub'er·y (dô'bə-rē) n.

verb

To spread with a greasy, sticky, or dirty substance: bedaub, besmear, dab, plaster, smear, smirch, smudge. See put on/take off.

noun

A discolored mark made by smearing: blot, blotch, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, splotch, stain. See marks.

1. A material such as clay, mortar, mud, or plaster (often mixed with straw), used as infilling between logs, as a coating over walls, or as plaster in wattle-and-daub.
2. To coat roughly with plaster or mud.

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[Ma]

Clay variously admixed with straw or dung and worked to a smooth consistency that is then used as a wall-covering or to make ovens and domestic fixtures. See also wattle and daub.

Common misspelling(s) of daub

• doub

Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - tilsmøre, oversmøre
v. intr. - klatmale, smøre
n. - smøreri, puds, klatmaleri

Nederlands (Dutch)
(be)smeren/-kladden, pleisterkalk, smeer, kladschilderij

Français (French)
v. tr. - barbouiller, enduire
v. intr. - barbouiller, enduire
n. - (Constr) enduit

Deutsch (German)
v. - (ver-/be)schmieren
n. - Rauhputz, Fleck, Kleckserei

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - επαλείφω, πασαλείβω, (καθομ.) ζωγραφίζω άτεχνα, μουντζουρώνω
n. - επάλειψη, (καθομ.) κακότεχνος πίνακας

Italiano (Italian)
intonaco, intonacare

Português (Portuguese)
v. - borrar, manchar
n. - borrão (m)

Русский (Russian)
обмазывать, мазок, мазня

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - manchar, untar, colorear
v. intr. - manchar, aparentar
n. - una cruda imagen

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - bestryka, smörja, kludda
n. - smet, klick

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
涂, 弄脏, 涂抹, 乱画, 涂鸦, 涂料, 拙劣的画

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 塗, 弄髒, 塗抹, 亂畫
v. intr. - 塗抹, 塗鴉, 亂畫
n. - 塗抹, 塗料, 亂畫, 拙劣的畫

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - (도료 등을) 흠뻑 칠하다, 지저분하게 하다, 서투르게 그리다
v. intr. - 어설픈 그림을 그리다
n. - 칠하기, 지저분함, (질퍽한) 도료

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 塗る, 汚す, へたな絵を描く
n. - 塗ること, よごれ, 塗料

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يكسو بطبقه من مادة ناعمه لاصقه, يلصق, يكسو بطبقه وسخه, يدهن أو يلون بغير إتقان (الاسم) جبس ( جص), طين‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮ליכלך, צבע, מרח, טייח‬
v. intr. - ‮מרח, צייר בלי כישרון, טייח‬
n. - ‮מריחה, קשקוש, ציפוי, טיח בעיקר מאיכות נמוכה‬

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