daub
verb (used with object)
to cover or coat with soft, adhesive matter, as plaster or mud.
dauby
-
a word derived from
daub.
Example Sentences
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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 Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
Elijah stood in the door, flourishing a dauby spoon.
From The Vision of Elijah Berl by Frank Lewis Nason
I didn’t fancy 193 them very much myself—too dauby.
From Out of the Air by Inez Haynes Gillmore
It was worse than going right into fairyland at the back of the stage on pantomime night, and staring dismayed at the dauby paint, canvas, and confusion.
From A Little World by George Manville Fenn
They passed Dan Lowry's musichall where Marie Kendall, charming soubrette, smiled on them from a poster a dauby smile.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
