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   daub

   /dɔːb/

   verb

   • 1. carelessly coat or smear (a surface) with a thick or sticky substance: "the walls were daubed with splashes of paint"
   • ▪ spread (a thick or sticky substance) on a surface in a careless or clumsy way: "a canvas with paint daubed on it"
   • ▪ paint (words or drawings) on a surface in a careless or clumsy way: "they daubed graffiti on the walls"

   noun

   • 1. a patch or smear of a thick or sticky substance: "a daub of paint"
   • ▪ a painting executed without much skill: "she stuck the painting up alongside the daubs made by her children"
   • 2. 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: "wattle and daub"

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

   Scrabble Points: 7

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   • A

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   • U

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   • B

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