DAUB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does daub mean? 

• DAUB (noun)
  The noun DAUB has 3 senses:

1. material used to daub walls

2. a blemish made by dirt

3. an unskillful painting

  Familiarity information: DAUB used as a noun is uncommon.

• DAUB (verb)
  The verb DAUB has 3 senses:

1. coat with plaster

2. apply to a surface

3. cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it

  Familiarity information: DAUB used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAUB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Material used to daub walls

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("daub" is a kind of...):

clay (a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired)

Derivation:

daub (cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it)

daub (apply to a surface)

daub (coat with plaster)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A blemish made by dirt

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

blot; daub; slur; smear; smirch; smudge; spot

Context example:

he had a smudge on his cheek

Hypernyms ("daub" is a kind of...):

blemish; defect; mar (a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "daub"):

blotch; splodge; splotch (an irregularly shaped spot)

fingermark; fingerprint (a smudge made by a (dirty) finger)

inkblot (a blot made with ink)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An unskillful painting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("daub" is a kind of...):

painting; picture (graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface)

• DAUB (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they daub    ... he / she / it daubs   
Past simple: daubed   
Past participle: daubed   
-ing form: daubing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coat with plaster

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

daub; plaster

Context example:

daub the wall

Hypernyms (to "daub" is one way to...):

coat; surface (put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface)

Verb group:

daub (apply to a surface)

Domain category:

masonry (the craft of a mason)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "daub"):

render-set (cover with two coats of plaster)

parget (apply ornamental plaster to)

roughcast (apply roughcast to)

mud (plaster with mud)

mortar (plaster with mortar)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

daub (material used to daub walls)

daubing (the application of plaster)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Apply to a surface

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

daub paint onto the wall

Hypernyms (to "daub" is one way to...):

apply; put on (apply to a surface)

Verb group:

daub; plaster (coat with plaster)

daub; smear (cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

Sentence examples:

They daub the bread with melted butter
They daub butter on the bread

Derivation:

daub (material used to daub walls)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

daub; smear

Context example:

daub the ceiling with plaster

Hypernyms (to "daub" is one way to...):

cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)

Verb group:

daub (apply to a surface)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "daub"):

blood (smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

daub (material used to daub walls)

dauber (an unskilled painter)

 Context examples 

The King himself was staying at Castle Malwood, but several of his suite had been compelled to seek such quarters as they might find in the wooden or wattle-and-daub cottages of the village.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the other hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not entirely lost his self-respect.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An artist friend fitted her out with his castoff palettes, brushes, and colors, and she daubed away, producing pastoral and marine views such as were never seen on land or sea.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He stared at what seemed a careless daub of paint, then stepped away.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The projector of this cell was the most ancient student of the academy; his face and beard were of a pale yellow; his hands and clothes daubed over with filth.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

However, when we got to the pathway outside the churchyard, where there was a puddle of water, remaining from the storm, I daubed my feet with mud, using each foot in turn on the other, so that as we went home, no one, in case we should meet any one, should notice my bare feet.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Like the others, it had a daub of asphalt upon its shoulder, and it was only when we saw one of the natives step forward with the air of an owner and give his consent to the beast's slaughter that we understood at last that these great creatures were as much private property as a herd of cattle, and that these symbols which had so perplexed us were nothing more than the marks of the owner.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He still wore the fine broadcloth suit in which he had fulfilled his mission, but it was bitterly the worse for wear, daubed with clay and torn with the sharp briers of the wood.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Here and there by the wayside stood little knots of wattle-and-daub huts with shock-haired laborers lounging by the doors and red-cheeked children sprawling in the roadway.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When the frog was got in, it hopped at once half the length of the boat, and then over my head, backward and forward, daubing my face and clothes with its odious slime.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)