Dab vs. Daub

To apply with short poking strokes

To cover or smear with a soft adhesive substance such as plaster, grease, or mud.

To cover lightly with a moist substance

To apply paint to (a surface) with hasty or crude strokes.

To rub or pat (something) lightly

To apply with quick or crude strokes

To press (something) lightly against an object or surface

To apply paint or coloring with crude, unskillful strokes.

To remove or brush away with light strokes

To make crude or amateurish paintings.

To make light patting or stroking motions

To daub a sticky material.

A small amount

The act or a stroke of daubing.

A quick light pat.

A soft adhesive coating material such as plaster, grease, or mud.

Any of various flatfishes, especially the edible Limanda limanda of northeast Atlantic waters.

Matter daubed on.

A dab hand.

A crude, amateurish painting or picture.

(transitive) To press lightly in a repetitive motion with a soft object without rubbing.

Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction.

(transitive) To apply a substance in this way.

A soft coating of mud, plaster, etc.

To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust.

A crude or amateurish painting.

(slang) To apply hash oil to a heated surface for the purpose of efficient combustion.

To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.

To perform the dab dance move, by moving both arms to one side of the body parallel with your head.

(transitive) To paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner.

A soft tap or blow; a blow or peck from a bird's beak; an aimed blow.

To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.

(AAVE) A soft, playful box given in greeting or approval.

To flatter excessively or grossly.

A small amount, a blob of some soft or wet substance.

To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.

(slang) A small amount of hash oil.

To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.

Fingerprint.

To paint in a coarse or unskillful manner.

(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.

To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.

(obsolete) A dabbler.

To flatter excessively or glossy.

One skilful or proficient; an expert; an adept.

To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.

A small flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, especially Limanda limanda; a flounder.

To smear; to play the flatterer.

(US) A sand dab, a small flatfish of genus Citharichthys.

A viscous, sticky application; a spot smeared or daubed; a smear.

With a dab, or sudden contact.

A picture coarsely executed.

Bad.

Material used to daub walls

A skillful hand; a dabster; an expert.

A blemish made by dirt;

A name given to several species of flounders, esp. to the European species, Pleuronectes limanda. The American rough dab is Hippoglossoides platessoides.

An unskillful painting

A gentle blow with the hand or some soft substance; a sudden blow or hit; a peck.

Coat with plaster;

A small mass of anything soft or moist.

Apply to a surface;

To strike or touch gently, as with a soft or moist substance; to tap; hence, to besmear with a dabber.

Cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it;

To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust.

A light touch or stroke

A small quantity of something moist or soft;

Apply (usually a liquid) to a surface;

Hit lightly;