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The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

daub

PRONUNCIATION:	dôb
VERB:	Inflected forms: daubed, daub·ing, daubs
TRANSITIVE VERB:	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.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:	1. To apply paint or coloring with crude, unskillful strokes. 2. To make crude or amateurish paintings. 3. To daub a sticky material.
NOUN:	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.
ETYMOLOGY:	Middle English dauben, from Old French dauber, from Latin dalbre, to whitewash : d-, intensive pref.; see de– + albus, white; see albho- in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS:	dauber —NOUN dauber·y (dôb-r) —NOUN


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