daub
pronunciation
How to pronounce daub in British English:
UK [dɔ:b]
How to pronounce daub in American English:
US [dɔb]
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- Noun:
- material used to daub walls
- a blemish made by dirt
- an unskillful painting
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- Verb:
- coat with plaster
- apply to a surface
- cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it
Word Origin
- daub
- daub: [14] The ultimate source of daub, Latin dēalbāre, meant literally ‘whiten’. It was derived from the adjective albus ‘white’, ancestor of English albino and album. It developed the specific meaning ‘cover with some white substance, such as whitewash or plaster’, and by the time it reached English, via Old French dauber, it referred to the applying of a coating of mortar, plaster, etc to a wall. This was generally a messy process (particularly in the smearing of a mixture of mud and dung on to a framework of laths to produce wattle-and-daub walls), and led in due course to the broader sense ‘apply crudely’.=> albino, album, auburn
- daub (v.)
- late 14c. (Dauber as a surname is recorded from mid-13c.), from Old French dauber "to whitewash, plaster" (13c.), perhaps from Latin dealbare, from de- "thoroughly" + albare "to whiten," from albus "white" (see alb). Painting sense is from 1620s. Related: Daubed; daubing. As a noun, from mid-15c.
Example
- 1. Just daub it with paint as quickly as possible .
- 2. Finally , then daub good essence and emulsion , so our rice water wash face + corn kernels skin care 'll have it !
- 3. Step 5 , all clean and remove horniness after work , don 't forget the follow-up care , daub skin water is necessary .
- 4. Some of the ointment , daub cannot fundamentally solve problems .
- 5. In the middle of the night , do not want daub lip oil please .