daub
IPA: dˈɔb
noun
- Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction.
- A soft coating of mud, plaster, etc.
- A crude or amateurish painting.
- A surname.
verb
- (intransitive, transitive) To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.
- (transitive) To paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner.
- (transitive, obsolete) To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
- (transitive, obsolete) To flatter excessively or grossly.
- (transitive, obsolete) To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.
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Examples of "daub" in Sentences
- He is married to the artist Anne Olsen Daub.
- The huts or houses had wattle and daub walls.
- The earliest type of infill was wattle and daub.
- Jacal construction is similar to wattle and daub.
- The cottages were mostly of wattle and daub with thatched roofs.
- A timber, wattle and daub church was present on the site in 1299.
- I'd what you call daub the seams of the sheetrock and paint some.
- Wet clay daub was then smeared onto the wattles, filling in the gaps.
- The building was originally timber framed with wattle and daub infill.
- Anyone recall the Omaha Police Division officers Daub was supported by
- Built of wattle and daub it was dedicated it to Mary the Blessed Virgin.
- I think it was shortly after this little adventure that I added another "daub" to my "gallery."
- Adding to the ritualistic atmosphere is the white gel that demonstrators daub on their cheeks and foreheads.
- Mark began to feel that he really had done something praiseworthy, and that the "daub" was not so despicable after all.
- If you be Sir _Harry Sprightly_, my Grand-Mother will be very angry when she hears how these Fellows ha 'daub'd my Cloaths.
- Right now she has an artist's brush, but is using it to half-heartedly daub a go-faster stripe along the side of her burgundy Vauxhall Meriva.
- She confesses to wearing an occasional daub of men's cologne so as to seem tomboyish and to using masking tape at night to flatten her bouncy curls.
- While the machine automatically marks the digital bingo card based on the bingo ball matches, you must tap a "daub" or "play" button once you see a winning bingo pattern.
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