Daub

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To cover or smear with a soft adhesive substance such as plaster, grease, or mud.
  • v. To apply paint to (a surface) with hasty or crude strokes.
  • v. To apply with quick or crude strokes: daubed glue on the paper.
  • verb-intransitive. To apply paint or coloring with crude, unskillful strokes.
  • verb-intransitive. To make crude or amateurish paintings.
  • verb-intransitive. To daub a sticky material.
  • n. The act or a stroke of daubing.
  • n. A soft adhesive coating material such as plaster, grease, or mud.
  • n. Matter daubed on.
  • n. A crude, amateurish painting or picture.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction (compare wattle and daub).
  • n. A soft coating of mud, plaster, etc.
  • n. A crude or amateurish painting.
  • v. To apply something to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.
  • v. To paint in a coarse or unskillful manner.
  • v. To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
  • v. To flatter excessively or glossy.
  • v. To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.
  • verb-intransitive. To smear; to play the flatterer.
  • n. A viscous, sticky application; a spot smeared or daubed; a smear.
  • n. A picture coarsely executed.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To smear with soft adhesive matter; plaster; cover or coat with mud, slime, or other soft substance.
  • To soil; defile; besmear.
  • Hence To paint ignorantly, coarsely, or badly.
  • To give a specious appearance to; patch up; disguise; conceal.
  • To dress or adorn without taste; deck vulgarly or ostentatiously; load as with finery.
  • n. A cheap kind of mortar; plaster made of mud.
  • n. A viscous, adhesive application; a smear.
  • n. A daubing or smearing stroke.
  • n. A coarse, inartistic painting.
  • n. In coloring enameled leather, a thick black substance put on as a first coat to fill the surface in preparation for the final coloring.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it
  • v. apply to a surface
  • n. an unskillful painting
  • v. coat with plaster
  • n. a blemish made by dirt
  • n. material used to daub walls
  • Verb Form
    daubed    daubing    daubs   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    apply    put on    picture    painting    clay   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    disguise    conceal    smear    plastery   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Aube    daube    fob    gaub   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    smutch    wattle    splotch    cosset    greenhorn    scrawl    dab    raddle    lightwood    bungler