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dauber

/dawb/US // dɔb //UK // (dɔːb) //

大伯,搠思

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to cover or coat with soft, adhesive matter, as plaster or mud: to daub a canvas with paint; to daub stone walls with mud.
    • : to spread on or over something: to daub plaster on a brick wall.
    • : to smear, soil, or defile.
    • : to apply, as paint or colors, unskillfully.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to daub something.
    • : to paint unskillfully.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : material, especially of an inferior kind, for daubing walls.
    • : something daubed on.
    • : an act of daubing.
    • : a crude, inartistic painting.

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Examples

  • When Cyrus Glover was informed that his daughter intended to marry a dauber in paints, he started for Paris on ten hours' notice.

  • A dancing-girl, who had not much to do, deigned to grant the little Flemish dauber, the favor of sitting for her portrait.

  • At the same time, another variety of wasp, the pipe-organ mud dauber, was building nests only of nonradioactive mud.

  • This little white spider I found in the nest of a mud dauber wasp.

  • Is it possible that after my training of you, you can be in love with this showy fellow, a dauber of no name or talent?