daub
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++daub1 /dɔːb $ dɒːb/ verb [transitive] PAINTto put paint or a soft substance on something without being very careful 〔胡乱〕涂抹 soldiers’ faces daubed with black mud 抹了黑泥的士兵的脸→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
daub• A blue line had been daubed across his forehead and round his short white hair.• While a police constable was in the living room, the car parked outside was being daubed by the youth.• Her face was always carefully rouged, her mouth daubed generously with salve.• He daubed more polish on to a dark splatter on the toe.• Anti-government slogans were daubed on the roads.• White memory, daubed, smeared ... The land remembers.• The previous user had also daubed the ducts along the roof of Biff's control bubble with vermilion slogans.• Since then, he claims, he's been repeatedly threatened, and now his garden shed has been daubed with graffiti.• Her dark dress has a creamy collar and cuffs, daubed with salmon trim.daub2 noun 1 LITTLE/NOT VERY[countable] a small amount of a soft or sticky substance 〔软物或黏性物质的〕少量daub of a daub of paint 少量的油漆2. [uncountable]TBC technical mud or clay used for making walls 〔抹墙的〕粗灰泥 → wattle and daub at wattle(1)Examples from the Corpus
daub• Three pieces of daub were dated and provided an average age and standard error of 830 plus/minus 40 years.• The mystery was the origin of the large quantities of daub.• I don't take to these modernistic people who just splash on daubs of paint.• The consistency of the mud and straw daub for the walls was arrived at through experiment.• The third alternative, and the most straight forward interpretation, was that the daub was contemporary with the backfilling of the drain.• This daub could have come from one of three distinct periods.Origin daub1 (1300-1400) Old French dauber, from Latin dealbare “to make white, whitewash”daub1 verbdaub2 nounChinese
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daub
daub1 /dɔːb $ dɒːb/ 
verb [transitive]
soldiers’ faces daubed with black mud
daub2 noun
1. [countable] a small amount of a soft or sticky substance
daub of
a daub of paint
2. [uncountable] technical mud or clay used for making walls ⇨ wattle and daub at wattle(1)
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verb [transitive] Date: 1300-1400
Language: Old French
Origin: dauber, from Latin dealbare 'to make white, whitewash'
to put paint or a soft substance on something without being very careful:Language: Old French
Origin: dauber, from Latin dealbare 'to make white, whitewash'
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noun1. [countable] a small amount of a soft or sticky substance
daub of
2. [uncountable] technical mud or clay used for making walls ⇨ wattle and daub at wattle(1)