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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.
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Daub

To apply with quick or crude strokes
Daubed glue on the paper.

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.
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Dab

To make light patting or stroking motions
Dabbed at the wound with a piece of gauze.

Daub

To daub a sticky material.

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.

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

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