Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A heavy round brush of rice-root, sharpened to a round point, used for cleaning out the corners of a carriage.
- noun One who or that which daubs.
- noun A coarse, ignorant painter.
- noun A low and gross flatterer.
- noun A copperplate-printers' pad, consisting of rags firmly tied together and covered over with a piece of canvas, for inking plates
- noun A mud-wasp: from the way in which it daubs mud in building its nest.
- noun The brush used to spread blacking upon shoes, as distinguished from the polisher, or brush used for polishing; they are sometimes combined in one.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.
- noun (Copperplate Print.) A pad or ball of rags, covered over with canvas, for inking plates; a dabber.
- noun A low and gross flatterer.
- noun (Zoöl.) The mud wasp; the mud dauber.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which,
daubs ; especially, a coarse,unskillful painter .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an unskilled painter
Etymologies
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Examples
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Parrocel, whom you call a dauber, and who for that matter is a dauber, if you compare him to Vernet, is still a man of rare talent relatively to the multitude of those who have flung up the career in which they started with him. "
Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. John Morley 1880
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I sponged them onto the stamps using a sponge dauber.
Archive 2009-09-01 jpitta 2009
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I sponged them onto the stamps using a sponge dauber.
It's beginning to look a lot like... jpitta 2009
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I actually inked the flowers in Soft Suede ink and then used my sponge dauber to added the Champagne mist to the flower in a couple of spots before I stamped the image.
I'm feeling old... jpitta 2010
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This was such an audacious creative conceit that the painter was mistaken for a naïve dauber, where in fact he could create among his works psychogeographic masterpieces that captured the cultural murk of the postwar scene.
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I actually inked the flowers in Soft Suede ink and then used my sponge dauber to added the Champagne mist to the flower in a couple of spots before I stamped the image.
Archive 2010-05-01 jpitta 2010
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My mother, clutching her bingo dauber, looked skeptical.
The Half Life Jennifer Weiner 2010
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My mother, clutching her bingo dauber, looked skeptical.
The Half Life Jennifer Weiner 2010
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My mother, clutching her bingo dauber, looked skeptical.
The Half Life Jennifer Weiner 2010
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My mother, clutching her bingo dauber, looked skeptical.
The Half Life Jennifer Weiner 2010
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