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dauber
  1. One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.
  2. (copperplate printing) A pad or ball of rags, covered with canvas, for inking plates; a dabber.
  3. (archaic) A low and gross flatterer.
  4. The mud wasp; the mud dauber.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “The mud dauber wasp is named for the way the females construct nests from bits of mud.”
      “These mud dauber wasps were gathering mud balls from my leaking sprinkler so I filmed them doing it.”
      “Their research clearly pointed to mud dauber wasps and bees as the closest cousins to ants.”
daubing
  1. Something daubed, such as graffiti.
  2. A rough coat of mortar put upon a wall to give it the appearance of stone; roughcast.
  3. In currying horses, a mixture of fish oil and tallow worked into leather; dubbing.
  4. Synonyms:
daub
  1. Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction (compare wattle and daub).
  2. A soft coating of mud, plaster, etc.
  3. A crude or amateurish painting.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “The small patch of rouge, invisible before, was now a staring daub of color in an oasis of ashen white.”
daubery
  1. A daubing; specious colouring; false pretenses.
  2. Examples:
    1. “She works by charms, by spells, by the figure, and such daubery as this is.”
daubster
daubsters
  1. plural of daubster
daubings
dauberies
  1. plural of daubery
daubers
  1. plural of dauber
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “We use daubers or stencil brushes to apply printing ink to our plates, but any stubby old brushes will do.”
      “Solitary species such as cicada killers, carpenter bees, digger wasps and mud daubers use their stingers to subdue the insects and spiders upon which they prey.”
      “And it is only a minority, too, who would be so ignorant as to assume that anyone who is not white is from Pakistan, which was the claim made by the graffiti daubers.”
daubs
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