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daub

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English

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WOTD – 27 March 2009

Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishdaub(noun), fromMiddle Englishdauben(“to plaster or whitewash; cover with clay; bespatter”,verb), fromOld Northern Frenchdauber(“to whitewash; plaster”), of uncertain origin. Probably fromLatindealbāre(“to whiten thoroughly”).

Pronunciation

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(UK)IPA^(key): /dɔːb/
(US)IPA^(key): /dɔb/,/dɑb/
Audio(US): (file)
Rhymes:-ɔːb

Noun

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daub (countable anduncountable,pluraldaubs)

Excrement orclay used as abonding material in construction.
A softcoating ofmud,plaster, etc.
Acrude oramateurishpainting.
- 2008, Joseph Agassi, Ian Charles Jarvie,A Critical Rationalist Aesthetics, page16:
  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 hisdaubs to the mainstream of art or writing?

soft coating of mud, plaster etc

crude or amateurish painting

Bulgarian:цапотене n(capotene)
Czech:mazanice f
Dutch:kladschilderij n
French:croûte (fr) f
German:Kleckserei f,Schmiererei (de) f
Hungarian:mázolmány (hu)
Italian:crosta (it) f
Polish:bohomaz (pl) m
Russian:мазня́ (ru) f(maznjá)
Serbo-Croatian:mazarija (sh) f,mrljotina (sh) f,črčkarija (sh) f
Spanish:pintarrajo (es) m
Turkish:acemice boyanmış resim
Ukrainian:мазня́ f(maznjá)

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Translations to be checked

Spanish:brochazo

Verb

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daub (third-person singular simple presentdaubs,present participledaubing,simple past and past participledaubed)

(intransitive, transitive) To apply (something) to a surface inhasty orcrude strokes.
Synonyms:apply,coat,cover,plaster,smear
The artist just seemed todaub on paint at random and suddenly there was a painting.
- 1611,The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […],→OCLC,Exodus 2:3:
  […] she took for him an ark of bulrushes, anddaubed it with slime and with pitch[…]
- 1864 August –1866 January,[Elizabeth] Gaskell, “The Bride at Home”, inWives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume I, London:Smith, Elder and Co., […], published1866,→OCLC,page180:
  […] Mrs. Gibson could not well come up to the girl’s bedroom every night and see that shedaubed her face and neck over with the cosmetics so carefully provided for her.
- 1868–1869,Louisa M[ay] Alcott,Little Women: […],(please specify |part=1 or 2), Boston, Mass.:Roberts Brothers,→OCLC:
  An artist friend fitted her out with his castoff palettes, brushes, and colors, and shedaubed away, producing pastoral and marine views such as were never seen on land or sea.
- 1940,Ernest Hemingway, chapter 15, inFor Whom the Bell Tolls‎^[1], London: Jonathan Cape, page185:
  […] as he watched, [the motorcar] came up the snow-covered road, green and brown painted, in broken patches ofdaubed color, the windows blued over so that you could not see in[…]
- 1952,Patricia Highsmith, chapter 3, inThe Price of Salt, Norton, published2004,page39:
  Blood was running to her shoe, and her stocking was torn in a jagged hole.[…] she wet toilet paper anddaubed until the red was gone from her stocking, but the red kept coming.
- 1969,Chaim Potok,The Promise‎^[2], New York: Fawcett Crest,Book 3, Chapter 16, p. 379:
  They were expecting to see me, she said,daubing paint on the canvas and stepping back to gauge the effect.
- 2007,Tan Twan Eng,The Gift of Rain‎^[3], New York: Weinstein Books,Book 1, Chapter 21, p. 226:
  Cylindrical lanternsdaubed in red writing hung at intervals across wooden beams[…]
- 2023 March 8, “Network News: First Tyne & Wear Metro '555' already 'tagged'”, inRAIL, number978, page 9:
  Unfortunately, one side of the new five-car train isdaubed in graffiti, having been vandalised in Wembley Yard, en route from Switzerland.
(transitive) Topaint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner.
- 1695,Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy, translated byJohn Dryden,Observations on the Art of Painting‎^[4], London: W. Rogers, page201:
  […] a lame, imperfect Piece, rudelydaub’d over with too little Reflection and too much haste.
- 1725, Isaac Watts, chapter 3, inLogick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published1726,→OCLC, part II (Of Judgment and Proposition), section 1,page189:
  If aPicture isdaub’d with many bright and glaring Colours, the vulgar Eye admires it as an excellent Piece[…]
- 1826,Elizabeth Barrett Browning,An Essay on Mind, Book I, inThe Earlier Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1826-1833, London: Bartholomew Robson, 1878, pp. 25-26,^[5]
  If some gay picture, vilelydaubed, were seen
  With grass of azure, and a sky of green,
  Th’impatient laughter we’d suppress in vain,
  And deem the painter jesting, or insane.
- 1964,Christopher Isherwood,A Single Man, Vintage, published2010:
  […] this stretch of the shore is still filthy with trash; high-school gangs stilldaub huge scandalous words on its beach-wall, and seashells are still less easy to find here than discarded rubbers.
(transitive, obsolete) To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
- c.1593 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act III, scene v]:
  So smooth hedaub’d his vice with show of virtue,
- 1820,John Clare, “The Universal Epitaph”, inPoems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery‎^[6], London: Taylor & Hessey, page91:
  No flattering praisesdaub my stone,
  My frailties and my faults to hide;
(transitive, obsolete) To flatter excessively or grossly.
- 1766,Tobias Smollett,Travels through France and Italy‎^[7], London: R. Baldwin, Volume 2, Letter 28, p. 73:
  I can safely say, however, that without anydaubing at all, I am, very sincerely, Your very affectionate, humble servant,
(transitive, obsolete) To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.
- 1697,John Dryden, “On the Three Dukes killing theBeadle on Sunday Morning, Febr. the 26th, 1670/1” inJohn Denhamet al.,Poems on affairs of state from the time of Oliver Cromwell, to the abdication of K. James the Second, London, p. 148,^[8]
  Yet shallWhitehall the Innocent, the Good,
  See these men dance alldaub’d with Lace and Blood.
- 1762,Oliver Goldsmith,The Citizen of the World‎^[9], London,Volume 1, Letter 50, p. 224:
  […] 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.
(transitive, bingo) To mark spots on abingo card, using adauber.