daub
verb (used with object)
to cover or coat with soft, adhesive matter, as plaster or mud.
dauby
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a word derived from
daub.
Example Sentences
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"The paint looks real dauby when you get close up to her."
From Princess Polly's Gay Winter by Brooks, Amy
He had a dauby tumbler of water beside him, and two or three Godey's Lady's Books awaiting his eager brush.
From The Awakening of Helena Richie by Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell
They passed Dan Lowry's musichall where Marie Kendall, charming soubrette, smiled on them from a poster a dauby smile.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
The stage was still there and the boxes, and at the back there were miles—they seemed miles anyway—of ancient, crumbling, dauby scenery stacked up and smelling of age and decay.
From The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
I didn’t fancy 193 them very much myself—too dauby.
From Out of the Air by Gillmore, Inez Haynes
