Dab vs. Daub

Dab and Daub Definitions
Dab
To apply with short poking strokes
Dabbed some paint on the worn spots.
Daub
To cover or smear with a soft adhesive substance such as plaster, grease, or mud.
Dab
To cover lightly with a moist substance
Dabbed the back of the fabric with glue.
Daub
To apply paint to (a surface) with hasty or crude strokes.
Dab
To rub or pat (something) lightly
Dabbed his eye with the corner of his sleeve.
Daub
To apply with quick or crude strokes
Daubed glue on the paper.
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Dab
To press (something) lightly against an object or surface
Dabbed a napkin to her lips.
Daub
To apply paint or coloring with crude, unskillful strokes.
Dab
To remove or brush away with light strokes
Dabbed the tears from the child's eyes.
Daub
To make crude or amateurish paintings.
Dab
To make light patting or stroking motions
Dabbed at the wound with a piece of gauze.
Daub
To daub a sticky material.
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Dab
A small amount
A dab of jelly.
Daub
The act or a stroke of daubing.
Dab
A quick light pat.
Daub
A soft adhesive coating material such as plaster, grease, or mud.
Dab
Any of various flatfishes, especially the edible Limanda limanda of northeast Atlantic waters.
Daub
Matter daubed on.
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Dab
A dab hand.
Daub
A crude, amateurish painting or picture.
Dab
(transitive) To press lightly in a repetitive motion with a soft object without rubbing.
I dabbed my face with a towel.
Daub
Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction.
Dab
(transitive) To apply a substance in this way.
He dabbed moisturizing liquid on his face.
Daub
A soft coating of mud, plaster, etc.
Dab
To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust.
Daub
A crude or amateurish painting.
Dab
(slang) To apply hash oil to a heated surface for the purpose of efficient combustion.
Daub
To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.
The artist just seemed to daub on paint at random and suddenly there was a painting.
Dab
To perform the dab dance move, by moving both arms to one side of the body parallel with your head.
Daub
(transitive) To paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner.
Dab
A soft tap or blow; a blow or peck from a bird's beak; an aimed blow.
Daub
To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
Dab
(AAVE) A soft, playful box given in greeting or approval.
Daub
To flatter excessively or grossly.
Dab
A small amount, a blob of some soft or wet substance.
A dab of glue
Daub
To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.
Dab
(slang) A small amount of hash oil.
Daub
To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.
She took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch.
Dab
Fingerprint.
Daub
To paint in a coarse or unskillful manner.
If a picture is daubed with many bright and glaring colors, the vulgar admire it is an excellent piece.
A lame, imperfect piece, rudely daubed over.
Dab
(dance) A hip hop dance move in which the dancer simultaneously drops the head while raising an arm, briefly resting their face in the elbow, as if sneezing into their elbow.
Daub
To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue.
Dab
(obsolete) A dabbler.
Daub
To flatter excessively or glossy.
I can safely say, however, that, without any daubing at all,I am very sincerely your very affectionate, humble servant.
Dab
One skilful or proficient; an expert; an adept.
Daub
To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.
Let him be daubed with lace.
Dab
A small flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, especially Limanda limanda; a flounder.
Daub
To smear; to play the flatterer.
His conscience . . . will not daub nor flatter.
Dab
(US) A sand dab, a small flatfish of genus Citharichthys.
Daub
A viscous, sticky application; a spot smeared or daubed; a smear.
Dab
With a dab, or sudden contact.
Daub
A picture coarsely executed.
Did you . . . take a look at the grand picture? . . . 'T is a melancholy daub, my lord.
Dab
Bad.
Daub
Material used to daub walls
Dab
A skillful hand; a dabster; an expert.
One excels at a plan or the titlepage, another works away at the body of the book, and the third is a dab at an index.
Daub
A blemish made by dirt;
He had a smudge on his cheek
Dab
A name given to several species of flounders, esp. to the European species, Pleuronectes limanda. The American rough dab is Hippoglossoides platessoides.
Daub
An unskillful painting
Dab
A gentle blow with the hand or some soft substance; a sudden blow or hit; a peck.
A scratch of her claw, a dab of her beak.
Daub
Coat with plaster;
Daub the wall
Dab
A small mass of anything soft or moist.
Daub
Apply to a surface;
Daub paint onto the wall
Dab
To strike or touch gently, as with a soft or moist substance; to tap; hence, to besmear with a dabber.
A sore should . . . be wiped . . . only by dabbing it over with fine lint.
Daub
Cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it;
Smear the wall with paint
Daub the ceiling with plaster
Dab
To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust.
Dab
A light touch or stroke
Dab
A small quantity of something moist or soft;
A dab of paint
A splatter of mud
Dab
Apply (usually a liquid) to a surface;
Dab the wall with paint
Dab
Hit lightly;
Pat him on the shoulder