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Dauber   /dˈaʊbər/   Listen
noun
Dauber  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.
2.
(Copperplate Print.) A pad or ball of rags, covered over with canvas, for inking plates; a dabber.
3.
A low and gross flatterer.
4.
(Zool.) The mud wasp; the mud dauber.





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"Dauber" Quotes from Famous Books



... sculptor—he may share that title with Greenough, since the dauber of signs is a painter as well as Raphael—had found a ready market for all his blank slabs of marble and full occupation in lettering and ornamenting them. He was an elderly man, a descendant of the old Puritan family of Wigglesworth, with a certain simplicity and ...
— Twice Told Tales • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... "Fool, miserable dauber, unfortunate schoolboy, in love with colours! Human beings pass before you, and you see only their froglike eyes. How did your tongue turn to say such a thing? Oh, if you only looked even once into the human soul! What treasures of tenderness, love, humble faith, holy humility, ...
— The Crushed Flower and Other Stories • Leonid Andreyev


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