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daub

  • noun
  • /dɔːb/

Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction.

Other meanings

  1. A soft coating of mud, plaster etc.

  2. A crude or amateurish painting.

A kind of

  • clay

Related words

  • wattle and daub

Word history

From Latin "dealbāre" (to whiten thoroughly).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “daub” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.