daub
v. 涂抹, 乱画, 弄脏 n. 污迹, 劣画
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Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction.
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A soft coating of mud, plaster, etc.
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A crude or amateurish painting.
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To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.
不及物 及物The artist just seemed to daub on paint at random and suddenly there was a painting.
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To paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner.
及物1826, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, An Essay on Mind, Book I, in The Earlier Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1826-1833, London: Bartholomew Robson, 1878, pp. 25-26, If some gay picture, vilely daubed, were seen With grass of azure, and a sky of green, Th’impatient laughter we’d suppress in vain, And deem the painter jesting, or insane.
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To mark spots on a bingo card, using a dauber.
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To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
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To flatter excessively or grossly.
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To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.
废旧 及物1697, John Dryden, “On the Three Dukes killing the Beadle on Sunday Morning, Febr. the 26th, 1670/1” in John Denham et al., Poems on affairs of state from the time of Oliver Cromwell, to the abdication of K. James the Second, London, p. 148, Yet shall Whitehall the Innocent, the Good, See these men dance all daub’d with Lace and Blood.
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From Middle English daub (noun), from Middle English dauben (“to plaster or whitewash; cover with clay; bespatter”, verb), from Old Northern French dauber (“to whitewash; plaster”), of uncertain origin. Probably from Latin dealbāre (“to whiten thoroughly”), which would make it a doublet of dealbate.
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