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
She looked a clean and clear miniature against the general dauby effect of the English girls—poor though, Miriam was sure; perhaps as poor as she.
From Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 by Dorothy Miller Richardson
I didn’t fancy 193 them very much myself—too dauby.
From Out of the Air by Inez Haynes Gillmore
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 Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
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
