Definition of daub in English:

daub

verb dɔːbdɔb

[with object]

1Carelessly coat or smear (a surface) with a thick or sticky substance.
在（表面）涂抹
the walls were daubed with splashes of paint
Example sentencesExamples
- Using a paper towel, she daubs a thick coat on the bark of the trees and shrubs she wants protected.
- People daub paint or smear mud over their bodies and go wild in the streets.
- The away dressing room walls were initially daubed dark purple (they've now been lightened to mauve) and the insides of the toilet doors have mirrors on them.
- After this process has been repeated eight to 30 times, workers daub a special mud on it, lay it out in the sun for some time, then wash it and sun-dry it again.
- Methodically daubing the treacly floor paint all over the architect's white and grey glaze walls, the waffle-textured bamboo wallpaper, the skylights, the portholes, the glass, bricks and the panora-fenestrals.
- And she claims her home was daubed with paint, and she has been pelted with stones.
- Who knows if that was the reason persons unknown decided to daub the famous photo with paint.
- The couple are accused of daubing neighbours' homes and cars with paint, hurling torrents of abuse at passers-by, and holding drunken all-day and all-night parties.
- A graveside statue of the Virgin Mary in Sligo Cemetery is the latest local monument to be daubed with red paint.
- So they slaughter a goat, daub Joseph's coat of many colours with blood and return to their father, feigning great sorrow at the unfortunate death of their poor brother Joseph.
- To get the keys to the car she had to watch half of it being daubed with black paint - by her dad.
- Back in Edinburgh clients are daubed with the dead sea mud or seaweed (or both, one after the other) and wrapped in a mylar sheet - the type of fabric worn by athletes to cover up after a race.
- When the boy was caught daubing paint on an Uncle's car, and subsequently whacked with a walking stick to teach him a lesson, she didn't speak to the family for two years.
- One theory is that ‘a male model was daubed with paint and wrapped in the sheet to create the shadowy figure of Christ.’
- St Bride's Primary School off the Lisburn Road in south Belfast had a classroom damaged by fire and four cars outside and walls were daubed with paint.
- One is tempted to imagine a scenario: someone, a child perhaps, daubing paint beside the window where the light was good and then abandoning the brush.
- In the corner someone had daubed red paint on the arms of a goth mannequin with leather wrist bands, a nod to the obsession with self-harm that features in many of the songs with which its teenage customers are familiar.
- Farm machinery was sabotaged, cars were daubed with paint stripper and the home windows of staff were smashed.
- Since May 16, hunting activists have daubed paint in nine different places around York, Selby and Ryedale.
- He uses a brush, a palette knife or his fingers to daub the oil pigments on to the canvas as thickly as mashed potato.
Synonyms
bedaub, smear, plaster, bespatter, splash, stain, spatter, splatter, cake, cover thickly, smother, coat, deface
slap
literary besmear, befoul, besmirch, begrime
1. 1.1 Spread (a thick or sticky substance) on a surface in a careless or clumsy way.
  在面上涂抹（厚重或粘稠物质）
  a canvas with paint daubed on it
  涂有颜料的油画布。
  Example sentencesExamples
  One night, after a wedding, the villagers return to their homes to find their front doors daubed with red, the creatures' colour.
  Until now residents and businesses have had to pay the council to use its high-pressure water jets to remove any graffiti daubed on their property.
  Residents at a Haydon Wick centre for the disabled find car windows smashed and graffiti daubed on walls.
  He looked bizarre in a Rasta wig, a multi-coloured hat, a Caribbean-style shirt and brown make-up paint daubed over his face.
  They saw Viro, daubed with the mud of the Trail of the Wending Willow, seated nobly, upon the battle-wearied steed; and the dangling head of Eshtu from the saddle.
  The upper reaches of the canvas is stark icy white and brushed with streaks of deep green and brown, and daubed with the eye engorging colours of wild flowers in the valley.
  With their faces daubed in camouflage paint and with assault rifles and machine guns under their arms they were a terrifying sight for the Hassan family, who huddled together in fear.
  Did you come back to find anything daubed on your walls?
  Looming over Agard-Oudad is ‘Napoleon's Hat ’, and nearby lie the ‘Painted Rocks’, a tennis court-sized hump daubed red and blue by a Belgian artist.
  He has given up removing the graffiti daubed on the walls and sadly admits that taunts and name-calling have become a staple part of his life.
  ‘Smith Out’ read the graffiti daubed on wall at the Bellefield training ground as the first-team squad reported back for duty.
  The graffiti, which was daubed on the creamery wall read: ‘Martin Ferris is here to stay‘.
  Sydney Opera House staff inspect the ‘no war’ slogan daubed on the building by protesters.
  The incidents include verbal abuse, slogans daubed on walls and physical assaults.
  In the background, just visible, slogans can be seen daubed on the ruins and on banners hanging from windows.
  Fireworks were thrown at them, paint was daubed on their car, their puppy was pelted with bricks and there were arson attacks on their home.
  Supported by Youthful red-clad males and females with twin white-cross flags daubed on each cheek, shod in comfortable shoes and with the odd scarlet, acrylic perm wig worn as a badge of Swiss humour.
  Rapidly daubed abstract surfaces, these colored backgrounds often dissolve into areas of white gesso.
  Homeowner Rebecca Wiggins, whose white walls were daubed with red spray-paint, certainly agrees.
  Slogans were daubed on the pavement including, ‘What sort of liberators use depleted uranium, napalm, cluster bombs?’
  Synonyms
  smear, plaster, slather, lather, apply, put
  cover, coat, layer, smother
2. 1.2 Paint (words or drawings) on a surface in a careless or clumsy way.
  在面上乱画（文字，图画）
  they daubed graffiti on the walls
  他们在墙上涂鸦。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The intruders forced their way into the house through the back door in the early hours of Tuesday morning, daubing graffiti on walls, smashing windows and throwing paint over the furniture.
  Protesters in rigid inflatable boats also daubed the words ‘No War’ on Dutch cargo ship Magdalena Green.
  Three windows were smashed and graffiti was daubed on the walls of the mobile classrooms.
  Recently, graffiti has been daubed on walls and an elderly resident has suffered a broken window.
  Graffiti has been daubed on the newly-opened Walton skatepark.
  Many in the capital wore the Yushchenko campaign colour of orange, while some showed their disdain for Yanukovich by daubing skips and wheelie-bins with the words ‘This is where Yanukovich belongs’.
  Earlier this year officers launched the town's first dispersal order in Stratton to split up gangs of troublesome teenagers that congregate to cause criminal damage, daub graffiti and intimidate people.
  The perimeter fence was also set ablaze, windows smashed, plants destroyed and buildings daubed with graffiti.
  Martin Eadon, a director in London, had his walls daubed with slogans.
  Many evangelical churches had windows smashed and walls daubed with offensive graffiti.
  The Metropolitan police choose to stand back from the protest until one group of protesters attacks the fast food restaurant and daubs slogans on the Cenotaph.
  Symbols and letters in mustard yellow and white were daubed on seats and rocks in the wooded ravine off Wells Road.
  Burns was warned by ‘those who knew’ that any thing of this sort would immediately be trashed, burned or daubed with graffiti.
  Anti-globalisation graffiti was daubed on the Tesco Express store in the town on Christmas Eve.
  There have been several attempts to set fire to the building and graffiti has been daubed on the walls on a number of occasions.
  Criminals are costing British businesses more than £1.3bn a year as traders live in fear of louts who steal from their shops, daub graffiti on their walls or subject them to intimidation.
  St John's has long been a target for thieves and vandals and only three weeks ago racist slogans were daubed on the church walls.
  The slogan was daubed with black paint on the Mercedes, which was parked outside their home in Blacklion, Cavan.
  It was reported as this newspaper went to press that Feltham Assembly Hall had been daubed with National Front supporting graffiti.
  The walls daubed with her name and accuse the girl of betrayal.
  Synonyms
  smear, plaster, spray, spray-paint, airbrush

noun dɔːbdɔb

1A patch or smear of a thick or sticky substance.
（厚重或粘稠物的）块，片
a daub of paint
一抹颜料。
Example sentencesExamples
- Thick daubs and spatters of paint represent the fruit and jugs.
- The last daubs of face paint carefully removes any remaining pearly traces…
- Central to the work is a big fir tree defined by hastily applied daubs of paint.
- Faint daubs of paint, suggestive of blowing leaves, seem to hover around them, and a series of black lines ‘connecting’ them charge the space.
- The color of the middle form is mainly white with daubs of yellow.
- A 1986 black-and-white print looks like a swarm, A work from the same year that layers blue, orange and yellow daubs on ivory paper recalls off-register photo reproduction.
- I wipe daubs of mud from my face, grinning because I'm above the tree line, in wide open country.
- Featuring delicate daubs of paint that created elegant dotted lines, the geometrical discipline of these lines imposed themselves on near evanescent landscapes.
- Yet the leafy bamboo is as desiccated as fake stalks would be, and the birds are casually carved chunks of wood with a few daubs of color: not lifelike models but schematic signs of birdhood.
- On another occasion, Turner thought his own work appeared dull next to Constable's, so he added a daub of red paint to an otherwise grey landscape.
- The painter's torso, made of a palette or shield that trails wings or oars, is splattered with highly stylized daubs of paint that evoke not only paint but also open wounds, swooping birds or, even, bird droppings.
- Now he added thick daubs of paint to the front of the panels, sometimes to the sides, using heavy impasto and deliberately crude designs.
- This would be a fine accompaniment to a meal-sized toasted honey baked ham bagel, also filled with thick cut Swiss cheese, whole grain mustard, crisp lettuce and a daub of herb-speckled mayonnaise.
- They were supported by bits of Granny Smith apple and a daub of pistachio purée.
- Ingram has been investigating the idea of a painting that thinks - he even invented a machine that scarified the wall with yellow daubs at this show's opening.
- His wings were well-groomed, colored the same deep, brick-red, and it appeared that he had taken the time to dip the end of each feather in a tiny daub of gold paint.
- Cooked on a circular grill, it's spread with a generous daub of Nutella and filled with chunks of papaya, avocado and banana.
- The daubs of dye were supposed to leave the top of his head looking like it had been covered in tiger-print.
- With flicks of his wrist he allows each sheep to materialize in no more than five daubs of paint - white mixed with touches of red, lemon chrome, and black.
- We scan our memories for forms to match the synoptic daubs of paint; we attempt to complete what the artist has omitted.
Synonyms
smear, smudge, splash, blot, spot, patch, pop, blotch, stain, mark
informal splodge
1. 1.1 A painting executed without much skill.
  涂鸦画，拙劣的画
  she stuck the painting up alongside the daubs made by her children
  Example sentencesExamples
  It's tempting to see parallels between their rich, expressionist daubs and the emotionally charged abstractions of Perelman's restless muse.
  I delighted in the feeling of superiority those crudely inked daubs gave me and revelled in the ignorance of my classmates as they asked me what they all meant.
  For Fried, however, all these works - down to the merest daub - are laden with significance.
  It's a natural assumption that his daubs and the words he writes in them and alongside them somehow inform one another, but that's to ignore the more telling effect writing has in his early work.
  The same protection is accorded to a casual letter or an entry in a diary and to the most valuable poem or essay, to a botch or daub and a masterpiece.
  Blanch wrote: ‘What detestable daubs his pictures are to be sure.’
2mass noun Plaster, clay, or another substance used for coating a surface, especially when mixed with straw and applied to laths or wattles to form a wall.
涂料
wattle and daub
抹灰篱笆墙。
Example sentencesExamples
- Wattle and daub construction, the use of cisterns to collect water, the ‘Big Yard’ or common area, and verandas and porches can be traced to Africa.
- Cob, rammed earth, straw, wattle & daub share the stage with papercrete, Earthships, earthbags and entire adobe homes fired to become ceramic, to name just a few.
- But there has been no word yet on whether the hammer beamed thatched roof, mud floors and wattle & daub walls are up to spec…
- Slather the daub over the surface of the wattle, attempting to seal any cracks to make the structure ‘weatherproof.’
- Picture yourself as a peasant in your wood and daub hut, while the storms of the Northern Hemisphere winter rage outside and the snow lies deep upon the ground.
- The floor zone of the secondstage house was remarkably well defined because the walls and roof of the house had burned and collapsed into the basin, in places sealing the floor with carbonized timbers and daub.
- This new settlement had substantial rectangular houses, made of mud brick or timber and daub on stone foundations.
- So the people developed the technique of making round culm balls or bombs, by mixing the culm with sticky yellow clay or daubs, and burning them in grates known as ‘raised hearts’.
- Two articulated adult skeletons (sex and exact age to be determined) were found lying above the floor and beneath a thick layer of charcoal and burnt wattle-impressed daub.
- Homes are constructed of waddle and daub (woven sticks and mud) with thatched roofs.
- The Osbert Village Inn and Tavern was a waddle and daub building, like most of Osbert.
- According to one resident who contacted the Weekender, daub is also being dumped on the site, although it was not immediately visible and so could not be confirmed.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French dauber, from Latin dealbare 'whiten, whitewash', based on albus 'white'.

This is from Old French dauber ‘clothe in white’, ‘clothe’, ‘whitewash’, ‘plaster’, from Latin dealbare ‘whiten, whitewash’ from albus ‘white’ (see album). All the English uses have developed from that of ‘plaster’.

Rhymes

absorb, bedaub, orb, sorb

Definition of daub in US English:

daub

verbdôbdɔb

[with object]

1Coat or smear (a surface) with a thick or sticky substance in a carelessly rough or liberal way.
在（表面）涂抹
she daubed her face with night cream
她在脸上抹上晚霜。
Example sentencesExamples
- Back in Edinburgh clients are daubed with the dead sea mud or seaweed (or both, one after the other) and wrapped in a mylar sheet - the type of fabric worn by athletes to cover up after a race.
- Who knows if that was the reason persons unknown decided to daub the famous photo with paint.
- One theory is that ‘a male model was daubed with paint and wrapped in the sheet to create the shadowy figure of Christ.’
- Using a paper towel, she daubs a thick coat on the bark of the trees and shrubs she wants protected.
- A graveside statue of the Virgin Mary in Sligo Cemetery is the latest local monument to be daubed with red paint.
- He uses a brush, a palette knife or his fingers to daub the oil pigments on to the canvas as thickly as mashed potato.
- One is tempted to imagine a scenario: someone, a child perhaps, daubing paint beside the window where the light was good and then abandoning the brush.
- Methodically daubing the treacly floor paint all over the architect's white and grey glaze walls, the waffle-textured bamboo wallpaper, the skylights, the portholes, the glass, bricks and the panora-fenestrals.
- In the corner someone had daubed red paint on the arms of a goth mannequin with leather wrist bands, a nod to the obsession with self-harm that features in many of the songs with which its teenage customers are familiar.
- So they slaughter a goat, daub Joseph's coat of many colours with blood and return to their father, feigning great sorrow at the unfortunate death of their poor brother Joseph.
- The couple are accused of daubing neighbours' homes and cars with paint, hurling torrents of abuse at passers-by, and holding drunken all-day and all-night parties.
- People daub paint or smear mud over their bodies and go wild in the streets.
- St Bride's Primary School off the Lisburn Road in south Belfast had a classroom damaged by fire and four cars outside and walls were daubed with paint.
- After this process has been repeated eight to 30 times, workers daub a special mud on it, lay it out in the sun for some time, then wash it and sun-dry it again.
- And she claims her home was daubed with paint, and she has been pelted with stones.
- Farm machinery was sabotaged, cars were daubed with paint stripper and the home windows of staff were smashed.
- To get the keys to the car she had to watch half of it being daubed with black paint - by her dad.
- Since May 16, hunting activists have daubed paint in nine different places around York, Selby and Ryedale.
- The away dressing room walls were initially daubed dark purple (they've now been lightened to mauve) and the insides of the toilet doors have mirrors on them.
- When the boy was caught daubing paint on an Uncle's car, and subsequently whacked with a walking stick to teach him a lesson, she didn't speak to the family for two years.
Synonyms
bedaub, smear, plaster, bespatter, splash, stain, spatter, splatter, cake, cover thickly, smother, coat, deface
1. 1.1 Spread (a thick or sticky substance) on a surface in a rough or liberal way.
  在（表面）涂抹
  a canvas with paint daubed on it
  涂有颜料的油画布。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Sydney Opera House staff inspect the ‘no war’ slogan daubed on the building by protesters.
  ‘Smith Out’ read the graffiti daubed on wall at the Bellefield training ground as the first-team squad reported back for duty.
  In the background, just visible, slogans can be seen daubed on the ruins and on banners hanging from windows.
  They saw Viro, daubed with the mud of the Trail of the Wending Willow, seated nobly, upon the battle-wearied steed; and the dangling head of Eshtu from the saddle.
  Until now residents and businesses have had to pay the council to use its high-pressure water jets to remove any graffiti daubed on their property.
  Rapidly daubed abstract surfaces, these colored backgrounds often dissolve into areas of white gesso.
  With their faces daubed in camouflage paint and with assault rifles and machine guns under their arms they were a terrifying sight for the Hassan family, who huddled together in fear.
  Looming over Agard-Oudad is ‘Napoleon's Hat ’, and nearby lie the ‘Painted Rocks’, a tennis court-sized hump daubed red and blue by a Belgian artist.
  The incidents include verbal abuse, slogans daubed on walls and physical assaults.
  The graffiti, which was daubed on the creamery wall read: ‘Martin Ferris is here to stay‘.
  Slogans were daubed on the pavement including, ‘What sort of liberators use depleted uranium, napalm, cluster bombs?’
  He has given up removing the graffiti daubed on the walls and sadly admits that taunts and name-calling have become a staple part of his life.
  Fireworks were thrown at them, paint was daubed on their car, their puppy was pelted with bricks and there were arson attacks on their home.
  One night, after a wedding, the villagers return to their homes to find their front doors daubed with red, the creatures' colour.
  Homeowner Rebecca Wiggins, whose white walls were daubed with red spray-paint, certainly agrees.
  Did you come back to find anything daubed on your walls?
  Residents at a Haydon Wick centre for the disabled find car windows smashed and graffiti daubed on walls.
  The upper reaches of the canvas is stark icy white and brushed with streaks of deep green and brown, and daubed with the eye engorging colours of wild flowers in the valley.
  He looked bizarre in a Rasta wig, a multi-coloured hat, a Caribbean-style shirt and brown make-up paint daubed over his face.
  Supported by Youthful red-clad males and females with twin white-cross flags daubed on each cheek, shod in comfortable shoes and with the odd scarlet, acrylic perm wig worn as a badge of Swiss humour.
  Synonyms
  smear, plaster, slather, lather, apply, put
  cover, coat, layer, smother
2. 1.2 Paint (words or drawings) on a surface by daubing.
  在面上乱画（文字，图画）
  they daubed graffiti on the walls
  他们在墙上涂鸦。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Graffiti has been daubed on the newly-opened Walton skatepark.
  The Metropolitan police choose to stand back from the protest until one group of protesters attacks the fast food restaurant and daubs slogans on the Cenotaph.
  Protesters in rigid inflatable boats also daubed the words ‘No War’ on Dutch cargo ship Magdalena Green.
  Symbols and letters in mustard yellow and white were daubed on seats and rocks in the wooded ravine off Wells Road.
  Martin Eadon, a director in London, had his walls daubed with slogans.
  Three windows were smashed and graffiti was daubed on the walls of the mobile classrooms.
  Recently, graffiti has been daubed on walls and an elderly resident has suffered a broken window.
  The slogan was daubed with black paint on the Mercedes, which was parked outside their home in Blacklion, Cavan.
  The intruders forced their way into the house through the back door in the early hours of Tuesday morning, daubing graffiti on walls, smashing windows and throwing paint over the furniture.
  Anti-globalisation graffiti was daubed on the Tesco Express store in the town on Christmas Eve.
  Many evangelical churches had windows smashed and walls daubed with offensive graffiti.
  Many in the capital wore the Yushchenko campaign colour of orange, while some showed their disdain for Yanukovich by daubing skips and wheelie-bins with the words ‘This is where Yanukovich belongs’.
  Criminals are costing British businesses more than £1.3bn a year as traders live in fear of louts who steal from their shops, daub graffiti on their walls or subject them to intimidation.
  St John's has long been a target for thieves and vandals and only three weeks ago racist slogans were daubed on the church walls.
  There have been several attempts to set fire to the building and graffiti has been daubed on the walls on a number of occasions.
  It was reported as this newspaper went to press that Feltham Assembly Hall had been daubed with National Front supporting graffiti.
  The perimeter fence was also set ablaze, windows smashed, plants destroyed and buildings daubed with graffiti.
  Burns was warned by ‘those who knew’ that any thing of this sort would immediately be trashed, burned or daubed with graffiti.
  Earlier this year officers launched the town's first dispersal order in Stratton to split up gangs of troublesome teenagers that congregate to cause criminal damage, daub graffiti and intimidate people.
  The walls daubed with her name and accuse the girl of betrayal.
  Synonyms
  smear, plaster, spray, spray-paint, airbrush

noundôbdɔb

1Plaster, clay, or another substance used for coating a surface, especially when mixed with straw and applied to laths or wattles to form a wall.
涂料
square huts, mostly daub and wattle
Example sentencesExamples
- The Osbert Village Inn and Tavern was a waddle and daub building, like most of Osbert.
- Wattle and daub construction, the use of cisterns to collect water, the ‘Big Yard’ or common area, and verandas and porches can be traced to Africa.
- Homes are constructed of waddle and daub (woven sticks and mud) with thatched roofs.
- Two articulated adult skeletons (sex and exact age to be determined) were found lying above the floor and beneath a thick layer of charcoal and burnt wattle-impressed daub.
- Slather the daub over the surface of the wattle, attempting to seal any cracks to make the structure ‘weatherproof.’
- But there has been no word yet on whether the hammer beamed thatched roof, mud floors and wattle & daub walls are up to spec…
- This new settlement had substantial rectangular houses, made of mud brick or timber and daub on stone foundations.
- The floor zone of the secondstage house was remarkably well defined because the walls and roof of the house had burned and collapsed into the basin, in places sealing the floor with carbonized timbers and daub.
- According to one resident who contacted the Weekender, daub is also being dumped on the site, although it was not immediately visible and so could not be confirmed.
- Cob, rammed earth, straw, wattle & daub share the stage with papercrete, Earthships, earthbags and entire adobe homes fired to become ceramic, to name just a few.
- So the people developed the technique of making round culm balls or bombs, by mixing the culm with sticky yellow clay or daubs, and burning them in grates known as ‘raised hearts’.
- Picture yourself as a peasant in your wood and daub hut, while the storms of the Northern Hemisphere winter rage outside and the snow lies deep upon the ground.
1. 1.1 A patch or smear of a thick or sticky substance.
  （厚重或粘稠物的）块，片
  a daub of paint
  一抹颜料。
  Example sentencesExamples
  A 1986 black-and-white print looks like a swarm, A work from the same year that layers blue, orange and yellow daubs on ivory paper recalls off-register photo reproduction.
  The last daubs of face paint carefully removes any remaining pearly traces…
  This would be a fine accompaniment to a meal-sized toasted honey baked ham bagel, also filled with thick cut Swiss cheese, whole grain mustard, crisp lettuce and a daub of herb-speckled mayonnaise.
  Faint daubs of paint, suggestive of blowing leaves, seem to hover around them, and a series of black lines ‘connecting’ them charge the space.
  Yet the leafy bamboo is as desiccated as fake stalks would be, and the birds are casually carved chunks of wood with a few daubs of color: not lifelike models but schematic signs of birdhood.
  I wipe daubs of mud from my face, grinning because I'm above the tree line, in wide open country.
  On another occasion, Turner thought his own work appeared dull next to Constable's, so he added a daub of red paint to an otherwise grey landscape.
  The daubs of dye were supposed to leave the top of his head looking like it had been covered in tiger-print.
  Featuring delicate daubs of paint that created elegant dotted lines, the geometrical discipline of these lines imposed themselves on near evanescent landscapes.
  Ingram has been investigating the idea of a painting that thinks - he even invented a machine that scarified the wall with yellow daubs at this show's opening.
  They were supported by bits of Granny Smith apple and a daub of pistachio purée.
  The color of the middle form is mainly white with daubs of yellow.
  Thick daubs and spatters of paint represent the fruit and jugs.
  With flicks of his wrist he allows each sheep to materialize in no more than five daubs of paint - white mixed with touches of red, lemon chrome, and black.
  We scan our memories for forms to match the synoptic daubs of paint; we attempt to complete what the artist has omitted.
  His wings were well-groomed, colored the same deep, brick-red, and it appeared that he had taken the time to dip the end of each feather in a tiny daub of gold paint.
  The painter's torso, made of a palette or shield that trails wings or oars, is splattered with highly stylized daubs of paint that evoke not only paint but also open wounds, swooping birds or, even, bird droppings.
  Central to the work is a big fir tree defined by hastily applied daubs of paint.
  Now he added thick daubs of paint to the front of the panels, sometimes to the sides, using heavy impasto and deliberately crude designs.
  Cooked on a circular grill, it's spread with a generous daub of Nutella and filled with chunks of papaya, avocado and banana.
  Synonyms
  smear, smudge, splash, blot, spot, patch, pop, blotch, stain, mark
2A painting executed without much skill.
涂鸦画，拙劣的画
Example sentencesExamples
- Blanch wrote: ‘What detestable daubs his pictures are to be sure.’
- It's a natural assumption that his daubs and the words he writes in them and alongside them somehow inform one another, but that's to ignore the more telling effect writing has in his early work.
- It's tempting to see parallels between their rich, expressionist daubs and the emotionally charged abstractions of Perelman's restless muse.
- The same protection is accorded to a casual letter or an entry in a diary and to the most valuable poem or essay, to a botch or daub and a masterpiece.
- I delighted in the feeling of superiority those crudely inked daubs gave me and revelled in the ignorance of my classmates as they asked me what they all meant.
- For Fried, however, all these works - down to the merest daub - are laden with significance.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French dauber, from Latin dealbare ‘whiten, whitewash’, based on albus ‘white’.

词汇	daub
释义	Definition of daub in English: daub verb dɔːbdɔb [with object] 1Carelessly coat or smear (a surface) with a thick or sticky substance. 在（表面）涂抹 the walls were daubed with splashes of paint Example sentencesExamples Using a paper towel, she daubs a thick coat on the bark of the trees and shrubs she wants protected. People daub paint or smear mud over their bodies and go wild in the streets. The away dressing room walls were initially daubed dark purple (they've now been lightened to mauve) and the insides of the toilet doors have mirrors on them. After this process has been repeated eight to 30 times, workers daub a special mud on it, lay it out in the sun for some time, then wash it and sun-dry it again. Methodically daubing the treacly floor paint all over the architect's white and grey glaze walls, the waffle-textured bamboo wallpaper, the skylights, the portholes, the glass, bricks and the panora-fenestrals. And she claims her home was daubed with paint, and she has been pelted with stones. Who knows if that was the reason persons unknown decided to daub the famous photo with paint. The couple are accused of daubing neighbours' homes and cars with paint, hurling torrents of abuse at passers-by, and holding drunken all-day and all-night parties. A graveside statue of the Virgin Mary in Sligo Cemetery is the latest local monument to be daubed with red paint. So they slaughter a goat, daub Joseph's coat of many colours with blood and return to their father, feigning great sorrow at the unfortunate death of their poor brother Joseph. To get the keys to the car she had to watch half of it being daubed with black paint - by her dad. Back in Edinburgh clients are daubed with the dead sea mud or seaweed (or both, one after the other) and wrapped in a mylar sheet - the type of fabric worn by athletes to cover up after a race. When the boy was caught daubing paint on an Uncle's car, and subsequently whacked with a walking stick to teach him a lesson, she didn't speak to the family for two years. One theory is that ‘a male model was daubed with paint and wrapped in the sheet to create the shadowy figure of Christ.’ St Bride's Primary School off the Lisburn Road in south Belfast had a classroom damaged by fire and four cars outside and walls were daubed with paint. One is tempted to imagine a scenario: someone, a child perhaps, daubing paint beside the window where the light was good and then abandoning the brush. In the corner someone had daubed red paint on the arms of a goth mannequin with leather wrist bands, a nod to the obsession with self-harm that features in many of the songs with which its teenage customers are familiar. Farm machinery was sabotaged, cars were daubed with paint stripper and the home windows of staff were smashed. Since May 16, hunting activists have daubed paint in nine different places around York, Selby and Ryedale. He uses a brush, a palette knife or his fingers to daub the oil pigments on to the canvas as thickly as mashed potato. Synonyms bedaub, smear, plaster, bespatter, splash, stain, spatter, splatter, cake, cover thickly, smother, coat, deface slap literary besmear, befoul, besmirch, begrime 1.1 Spread (a thick or sticky substance) on a surface in a careless or clumsy way. 在面上涂抹（厚重或粘稠物质） a canvas with paint daubed on it 涂有颜料的油画布。 Example sentencesExamples One night, after a wedding, the villagers return to their homes to find their front doors daubed with red, the creatures' colour. Until now residents and businesses have had to pay the council to use its high-pressure water jets to remove any graffiti daubed on their property. Residents at a Haydon Wick centre for the disabled find car windows smashed and graffiti daubed on walls. He looked bizarre in a Rasta wig, a multi-coloured hat, a Caribbean-style shirt and brown make-up paint daubed over his face. They saw Viro, daubed with the mud of the Trail of the Wending Willow, seated nobly, upon the battle-wearied steed; and the dangling head of Eshtu from the saddle. The upper reaches of the canvas is stark icy white and brushed with streaks of deep green and brown, and daubed with the eye engorging colours of wild flowers in the valley. With their faces daubed in camouflage paint and with assault rifles and machine guns under their arms they were a terrifying sight for the Hassan family, who huddled together in fear. Did you come back to find anything daubed on your walls? Looming over Agard-Oudad is ‘Napoleon's Hat ’, and nearby lie the ‘Painted Rocks’, a tennis court-sized hump daubed red and blue by a Belgian artist. He has given up removing the graffiti daubed on the walls and sadly admits that taunts and name-calling have become a staple part of his life. ‘Smith Out’ read the graffiti daubed on wall at the Bellefield training ground as the first-team squad reported back for duty. The graffiti, which was daubed on the creamery wall read: ‘Martin Ferris is here to stay‘. Sydney Opera House staff inspect the ‘no war’ slogan daubed on the building by protesters. The incidents include verbal abuse, slogans daubed on walls and physical assaults. In the background, just visible, slogans can be seen daubed on the ruins and on banners hanging from windows. Fireworks were thrown at them, paint was daubed on their car, their puppy was pelted with bricks and there were arson attacks on their home. Supported by Youthful red-clad males and females with twin white-cross flags daubed on each cheek, shod in comfortable shoes and with the odd scarlet, acrylic perm wig worn as a badge of Swiss humour. Rapidly daubed abstract surfaces, these colored backgrounds often dissolve into areas of white gesso. Homeowner Rebecca Wiggins, whose white walls were daubed with red spray-paint, certainly agrees. Slogans were daubed on the pavement including, ‘What sort of liberators use depleted uranium, napalm, cluster bombs?’ Synonyms smear, plaster, slather, lather, apply, put cover, coat, layer, smother 1.2 Paint (words or drawings) on a surface in a careless or clumsy way. 在面上乱画（文字，图画） they daubed graffiti on the walls 他们在墙上涂鸦。 Example sentencesExamples The intruders forced their way into the house through the back door in the early hours of Tuesday morning, daubing graffiti on walls, smashing windows and throwing paint over the furniture. Protesters in rigid inflatable boats also daubed the words ‘No War’ on Dutch cargo ship Magdalena Green. Three windows were smashed and graffiti was daubed on the walls of the mobile classrooms. Recently, graffiti has been daubed on walls and an elderly resident has suffered a broken window. Graffiti has been daubed on the newly-opened Walton skatepark. Many in the capital wore the Yushchenko campaign colour of orange, while some showed their disdain for Yanukovich by daubing skips and wheelie-bins with the words ‘This is where Yanukovich belongs’. Earlier this year officers launched the town's first dispersal order in Stratton to split up gangs of troublesome teenagers that congregate to cause criminal damage, daub graffiti and intimidate people. The perimeter fence was also set ablaze, windows smashed, plants destroyed and buildings daubed with graffiti. Martin Eadon, a director in London, had his walls daubed with slogans. Many evangelical churches had windows smashed and walls daubed with offensive graffiti. The Metropolitan police choose to stand back from the protest until one group of protesters attacks the fast food restaurant and daubs slogans on the Cenotaph. Symbols and letters in mustard yellow and white were daubed on seats and rocks in the wooded ravine off Wells Road. Burns was warned by ‘those who knew’ that any thing of this sort would immediately be trashed, burned or daubed with graffiti. Anti-globalisation graffiti was daubed on the Tesco Express store in the town on Christmas Eve. There have been several attempts to set fire to the building and graffiti has been daubed on the walls on a number of occasions. Criminals are costing British businesses more than £1.3bn a year as traders live in fear of louts who steal from their shops, daub graffiti on their walls or subject them to intimidation. St John's has long been a target for thieves and vandals and only three weeks ago racist slogans were daubed on the church walls. The slogan was daubed with black paint on the Mercedes, which was parked outside their home in Blacklion, Cavan. It was reported as this newspaper went to press that Feltham Assembly Hall had been daubed with National Front supporting graffiti. The walls daubed with her name and accuse the girl of betrayal. Synonyms smear, plaster, spray, spray-paint, airbrush noun dɔːbdɔb 1A patch or smear of a thick or sticky substance. （厚重或粘稠物的）块，片 a daub of paint 一抹颜料。 Example sentencesExamples Thick daubs and spatters of paint represent the fruit and jugs. The last daubs of face paint carefully removes any remaining pearly traces… Central to the work is a big fir tree defined by hastily applied daubs of paint. Faint daubs of paint, suggestive of blowing leaves, seem to hover around them, and a series of black lines ‘connecting’ them charge the space. The color of the middle form is mainly white with daubs of yellow. A 1986 black-and-white print looks like a swarm, A work from the same year that layers blue, orange and yellow daubs on ivory paper recalls off-register photo reproduction. I wipe daubs of mud from my face, grinning because I'm above the tree line, in wide open country. Featuring delicate daubs of paint that created elegant dotted lines, the geometrical discipline of these lines imposed themselves on near evanescent landscapes. Yet the leafy bamboo is as desiccated as fake stalks would be, and the birds are casually carved chunks of wood with a few daubs of color: not lifelike models but schematic signs of birdhood. On another occasion, Turner thought his own work appeared dull next to Constable's, so he added a daub of red paint to an otherwise grey landscape. The painter's torso, made of a palette or shield that trails wings or oars, is splattered with highly stylized daubs of paint that evoke not only paint but also open wounds, swooping birds or, even, bird droppings. Now he added thick daubs of paint to the front of the panels, sometimes to the sides, using heavy impasto and deliberately crude designs. This would be a fine accompaniment to a meal-sized toasted honey baked ham bagel, also filled with thick cut Swiss cheese, whole grain mustard, crisp lettuce and a daub of herb-speckled mayonnaise. They were supported by bits of Granny Smith apple and a daub of pistachio purée. Ingram has been investigating the idea of a painting that thinks - he even invented a machine that scarified the wall with yellow daubs at this show's opening. His wings were well-groomed, colored the same deep, brick-red, and it appeared that he had taken the time to dip the end of each feather in a tiny daub of gold paint. Cooked on a circular grill, it's spread with a generous daub of Nutella and filled with chunks of papaya, avocado and banana. The daubs of dye were supposed to leave the top of his head looking like it had been covered in tiger-print. With flicks of his wrist he allows each sheep to materialize in no more than five daubs of paint - white mixed with touches of red, lemon chrome, and black. We scan our memories for forms to match the synoptic daubs of paint; we attempt to complete what the artist has omitted. Synonyms smear, smudge, splash, blot, spot, patch, pop, blotch, stain, mark informal splodge 1.1 A painting executed without much skill. 涂鸦画，拙劣的画 she stuck the painting up alongside the daubs made by her children Example sentencesExamples It's tempting to see parallels between their rich, expressionist daubs and the emotionally charged abstractions of Perelman's restless muse. I delighted in the feeling of superiority those crudely inked daubs gave me and revelled in the ignorance of my classmates as they asked me what they all meant. For Fried, however, all these works - down to the merest daub - are laden with significance. It's a natural assumption that his daubs and the words he writes in them and alongside them somehow inform one another, but that's to ignore the more telling effect writing has in his early work. The same protection is accorded to a casual letter or an entry in a diary and to the most valuable poem or essay, to a botch or daub and a masterpiece. Blanch wrote: ‘What detestable daubs his pictures are to be sure.’ 2mass noun Plaster, clay, or another substance used for coating a surface, especially when mixed with straw and applied to laths or wattles to form a wall. 涂料 wattle and daub 抹灰篱笆墙。 Example sentencesExamples Wattle and daub construction, the use of cisterns to collect water, the ‘Big Yard’ or common area, and verandas and porches can be traced to Africa. Cob, rammed earth, straw, wattle & daub share the stage with papercrete, Earthships, earthbags and entire adobe homes fired to become ceramic, to name just a few. But there has been no word yet on whether the hammer beamed thatched roof, mud floors and wattle & daub walls are up to spec… Slather the daub over the surface of the wattle, attempting to seal any cracks to make the structure ‘weatherproof.’ Picture yourself as a peasant in your wood and daub hut, while the storms of the Northern Hemisphere winter rage outside and the snow lies deep upon the ground. The floor zone of the secondstage house was remarkably well defined because the walls and roof of the house had burned and collapsed into the basin, in places sealing the floor with carbonized timbers and daub. This new settlement had substantial rectangular houses, made of mud brick or timber and daub on stone foundations. So the people developed the technique of making round culm balls or bombs, by mixing the culm with sticky yellow clay or daubs, and burning them in grates known as ‘raised hearts’. Two articulated adult skeletons (sex and exact age to be determined) were found lying above the floor and beneath a thick layer of charcoal and burnt wattle-impressed daub. Homes are constructed of waddle and daub (woven sticks and mud) with thatched roofs. The Osbert Village Inn and Tavern was a waddle and daub building, like most of Osbert. According to one resident who contacted the Weekender, daub is also being dumped on the site, although it was not immediately visible and so could not be confirmed. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French dauber, from Latin dealbare 'whiten, whitewash', based on albus 'white'. This is from Old French dauber ‘clothe in white’, ‘clothe’, ‘whitewash’, ‘plaster’, from Latin dealbare ‘whiten, whitewash’ from albus ‘white’ (see album). All the English uses have developed from that of ‘plaster’. Rhymes absorb, bedaub, orb, sorb Definition of daub in US English: daub verbdôbdɔb [with object] 1Coat or smear (a surface) with a thick or sticky substance in a carelessly rough or liberal way. 在（表面）涂抹 she daubed her face with night cream 她在脸上抹上晚霜。 Example sentencesExamples Back in Edinburgh clients are daubed with the dead sea mud or seaweed (or both, one after the other) and wrapped in a mylar sheet - the type of fabric worn by athletes to cover up after a race. Who knows if that was the reason persons unknown decided to daub the famous photo with paint. One theory is that ‘a male model was daubed with paint and wrapped in the sheet to create the shadowy figure of Christ.’ Using a paper towel, she daubs a thick coat on the bark of the trees and shrubs she wants protected. A graveside statue of the Virgin Mary in Sligo Cemetery is the latest local monument to be daubed with red paint. He uses a brush, a palette knife or his fingers to daub the oil pigments on to the canvas as thickly as mashed potato. One is tempted to imagine a scenario: someone, a child perhaps, daubing paint beside the window where the light was good and then abandoning the brush. Methodically daubing the treacly floor paint all over the architect's white and grey glaze walls, the waffle-textured bamboo wallpaper, the skylights, the portholes, the glass, bricks and the panora-fenestrals. In the corner someone had daubed red paint on the arms of a goth mannequin with leather wrist bands, a nod to the obsession with self-harm that features in many of the songs with which its teenage customers are familiar. So they slaughter a goat, daub Joseph's coat of many colours with blood and return to their father, feigning great sorrow at the unfortunate death of their poor brother Joseph. The couple are accused of daubing neighbours' homes and cars with paint, hurling torrents of abuse at passers-by, and holding drunken all-day and all-night parties. People daub paint or smear mud over their bodies and go wild in the streets. St Bride's Primary School off the Lisburn Road in south Belfast had a classroom damaged by fire and four cars outside and walls were daubed with paint. After this process has been repeated eight to 30 times, workers daub a special mud on it, lay it out in the sun for some time, then wash it and sun-dry it again. And she claims her home was daubed with paint, and she has been pelted with stones. Farm machinery was sabotaged, cars were daubed with paint stripper and the home windows of staff were smashed. To get the keys to the car she had to watch half of it being daubed with black paint - by her dad. Since May 16, hunting activists have daubed paint in nine different places around York, Selby and Ryedale. The away dressing room walls were initially daubed dark purple (they've now been lightened to mauve) and the insides of the toilet doors have mirrors on them. When the boy was caught daubing paint on an Uncle's car, and subsequently whacked with a walking stick to teach him a lesson, she didn't speak to the family for two years. Synonyms bedaub, smear, plaster, bespatter, splash, stain, spatter, splatter, cake, cover thickly, smother, coat, deface 1.1 Spread (a thick or sticky substance) on a surface in a rough or liberal way. 在（表面）涂抹 a canvas with paint daubed on it 涂有颜料的油画布。 Example sentencesExamples Sydney Opera House staff inspect the ‘no war’ slogan daubed on the building by protesters. ‘Smith Out’ read the graffiti daubed on wall at the Bellefield training ground as the first-team squad reported back for duty. In the background, just visible, slogans can be seen daubed on the ruins and on banners hanging from windows. They saw Viro, daubed with the mud of the Trail of the Wending Willow, seated nobly, upon the battle-wearied steed; and the dangling head of Eshtu from the saddle. Until now residents and businesses have had to pay the council to use its high-pressure water jets to remove any graffiti daubed on their property. Rapidly daubed abstract surfaces, these colored backgrounds often dissolve into areas of white gesso. With their faces daubed in camouflage paint and with assault rifles and machine guns under their arms they were a terrifying sight for the Hassan family, who huddled together in fear. Looming over Agard-Oudad is ‘Napoleon's Hat ’, and nearby lie the ‘Painted Rocks’, a tennis court-sized hump daubed red and blue by a Belgian artist. The incidents include verbal abuse, slogans daubed on walls and physical assaults. The graffiti, which was daubed on the creamery wall read: ‘Martin Ferris is here to stay‘. Slogans were daubed on the pavement including, ‘What sort of liberators use depleted uranium, napalm, cluster bombs?’ He has given up removing the graffiti daubed on the walls and sadly admits that taunts and name-calling have become a staple part of his life. Fireworks were thrown at them, paint was daubed on their car, their puppy was pelted with bricks and there were arson attacks on their home. One night, after a wedding, the villagers return to their homes to find their front doors daubed with red, the creatures' colour. Homeowner Rebecca Wiggins, whose white walls were daubed with red spray-paint, certainly agrees. Did you come back to find anything daubed on your walls? Residents at a Haydon Wick centre for the disabled find car windows smashed and graffiti daubed on walls. The upper reaches of the canvas is stark icy white and brushed with streaks of deep green and brown, and daubed with the eye engorging colours of wild flowers in the valley. He looked bizarre in a Rasta wig, a multi-coloured hat, a Caribbean-style shirt and brown make-up paint daubed over his face. Supported by Youthful red-clad males and females with twin white-cross flags daubed on each cheek, shod in comfortable shoes and with the odd scarlet, acrylic perm wig worn as a badge of Swiss humour. Synonyms smear, plaster, slather, lather, apply, put cover, coat, layer, smother 1.2 Paint (words or drawings) on a surface by daubing. 在面上乱画（文字，图画） they daubed graffiti on the walls 他们在墙上涂鸦。 Example sentencesExamples Graffiti has been daubed on the newly-opened Walton skatepark. The Metropolitan police choose to stand back from the protest until one group of protesters attacks the fast food restaurant and daubs slogans on the Cenotaph. Protesters in rigid inflatable boats also daubed the words ‘No War’ on Dutch cargo ship Magdalena Green. Symbols and letters in mustard yellow and white were daubed on seats and rocks in the wooded ravine off Wells Road. Martin Eadon, a director in London, had his walls daubed with slogans. Three windows were smashed and graffiti was daubed on the walls of the mobile classrooms. Recently, graffiti has been daubed on walls and an elderly resident has suffered a broken window. The slogan was daubed with black paint on the Mercedes, which was parked outside their home in Blacklion, Cavan. The intruders forced their way into the house through the back door in the early hours of Tuesday morning, daubing graffiti on walls, smashing windows and throwing paint over the furniture. Anti-globalisation graffiti was daubed on the Tesco Express store in the town on Christmas Eve. Many evangelical churches had windows smashed and walls daubed with offensive graffiti. Many in the capital wore the Yushchenko campaign colour of orange, while some showed their disdain for Yanukovich by daubing skips and wheelie-bins with the words ‘This is where Yanukovich belongs’. Criminals are costing British businesses more than £1.3bn a year as traders live in fear of louts who steal from their shops, daub graffiti on their walls or subject them to intimidation. St John's has long been a target for thieves and vandals and only three weeks ago racist slogans were daubed on the church walls. There have been several attempts to set fire to the building and graffiti has been daubed on the walls on a number of occasions. It was reported as this newspaper went to press that Feltham Assembly Hall had been daubed with National Front supporting graffiti. The perimeter fence was also set ablaze, windows smashed, plants destroyed and buildings daubed with graffiti. Burns was warned by ‘those who knew’ that any thing of this sort would immediately be trashed, burned or daubed with graffiti. Earlier this year officers launched the town's first dispersal order in Stratton to split up gangs of troublesome teenagers that congregate to cause criminal damage, daub graffiti and intimidate people. The walls daubed with her name and accuse the girl of betrayal. Synonyms smear, plaster, spray, spray-paint, airbrush noundôbdɔb 1Plaster, clay, or another substance used for coating a surface, especially when mixed with straw and applied to laths or wattles to form a wall. 涂料 square huts, mostly daub and wattle Example sentencesExamples The Osbert Village Inn and Tavern was a waddle and daub building, like most of Osbert. Wattle and daub construction, the use of cisterns to collect water, the ‘Big Yard’ or common area, and verandas and porches can be traced to Africa. Homes are constructed of waddle and daub (woven sticks and mud) with thatched roofs. Two articulated adult skeletons (sex and exact age to be determined) were found lying above the floor and beneath a thick layer of charcoal and burnt wattle-impressed daub. Slather the daub over the surface of the wattle, attempting to seal any cracks to make the structure ‘weatherproof.’ But there has been no word yet on whether the hammer beamed thatched roof, mud floors and wattle & daub walls are up to spec… This new settlement had substantial rectangular houses, made of mud brick or timber and daub on stone foundations. The floor zone of the secondstage house was remarkably well defined because the walls and roof of the house had burned and collapsed into the basin, in places sealing the floor with carbonized timbers and daub. According to one resident who contacted the Weekender, daub is also being dumped on the site, although it was not immediately visible and so could not be confirmed. Cob, rammed earth, straw, wattle & daub share the stage with papercrete, Earthships, earthbags and entire adobe homes fired to become ceramic, to name just a few. So the people developed the technique of making round culm balls or bombs, by mixing the culm with sticky yellow clay or daubs, and burning them in grates known as ‘raised hearts’. Picture yourself as a peasant in your wood and daub hut, while the storms of the Northern Hemisphere winter rage outside and the snow lies deep upon the ground. 1.1 A patch or smear of a thick or sticky substance. （厚重或粘稠物的）块，片 a daub of paint 一抹颜料。 Example sentencesExamples A 1986 black-and-white print looks like a swarm, A work from the same year that layers blue, orange and yellow daubs on ivory paper recalls off-register photo reproduction. The last daubs of face paint carefully removes any remaining pearly traces… This would be a fine accompaniment to a meal-sized toasted honey baked ham bagel, also filled with thick cut Swiss cheese, whole grain mustard, crisp lettuce and a daub of herb-speckled mayonnaise. Faint daubs of paint, suggestive of blowing leaves, seem to hover around them, and a series of black lines ‘connecting’ them charge the space. Yet the leafy bamboo is as desiccated as fake stalks would be, and the birds are casually carved chunks of wood with a few daubs of color: not lifelike models but schematic signs of birdhood. I wipe daubs of mud from my face, grinning because I'm above the tree line, in wide open country. On another occasion, Turner thought his own work appeared dull next to Constable's, so he added a daub of red paint to an otherwise grey landscape. The daubs of dye were supposed to leave the top of his head looking like it had been covered in tiger-print. Featuring delicate daubs of paint that created elegant dotted lines, the geometrical discipline of these lines imposed themselves on near evanescent landscapes. Ingram has been investigating the idea of a painting that thinks - he even invented a machine that scarified the wall with yellow daubs at this show's opening. They were supported by bits of Granny Smith apple and a daub of pistachio purée. The color of the middle form is mainly white with daubs of yellow. Thick daubs and spatters of paint represent the fruit and jugs. With flicks of his wrist he allows each sheep to materialize in no more than five daubs of paint - white mixed with touches of red, lemon chrome, and black. We scan our memories for forms to match the synoptic daubs of paint; we attempt to complete what the artist has omitted. His wings were well-groomed, colored the same deep, brick-red, and it appeared that he had taken the time to dip the end of each feather in a tiny daub of gold paint. The painter's torso, made of a palette or shield that trails wings or oars, is splattered with highly stylized daubs of paint that evoke not only paint but also open wounds, swooping birds or, even, bird droppings. Central to the work is a big fir tree defined by hastily applied daubs of paint. Now he added thick daubs of paint to the front of the panels, sometimes to the sides, using heavy impasto and deliberately crude designs. Cooked on a circular grill, it's spread with a generous daub of Nutella and filled with chunks of papaya, avocado and banana. Synonyms smear, smudge, splash, blot, spot, patch, pop, blotch, stain, mark 2A painting executed without much skill. 涂鸦画，拙劣的画 Example sentencesExamples Blanch wrote: ‘What detestable daubs his pictures are to be sure.’ It's a natural assumption that his daubs and the words he writes in them and alongside them somehow inform one another, but that's to ignore the more telling effect writing has in his early work. It's tempting to see parallels between their rich, expressionist daubs and the emotionally charged abstractions of Perelman's restless muse. The same protection is accorded to a casual letter or an entry in a diary and to the most valuable poem or essay, to a botch or daub and a masterpiece. I delighted in the feeling of superiority those crudely inked daubs gave me and revelled in the ignorance of my classmates as they asked me what they all meant. For Fried, however, all these works - down to the merest daub - are laden with significance. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French dauber, from Latin dealbare ‘whiten, whitewash’, based on albus ‘white’.
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