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noun

Dauber n.

One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.

(Copperplate Print.) A pad or ball of rags, covered over with canvas, for inking plates; a dabber.

A low and gross flatterer.

(Zool.) The mud wasp; the mud dauber.

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Etymology of 'Dauber'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dauber" Quotes from Famous Books

... having popularised, if he did not invent, the word "Socialist" and the cheerfuller one of having faithfully dealt with the thing Socialism. And Jerome is well set off by his still more "Jeune-France" friend Oscar, a painter, not exactly a bad fellow, but a poseur, a dauber (he would have been a great Futurist or Cubist to-day), a very Bragadochio in words and flourish, and, alas! as he turns out presently, a Bragadochio ...

— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury

... subject is treated at length in the chapter on Reason, therefore I will only introduce here certain evidence of this phase of memory as it is to be observed in the lower animals, especially in insects. A wasp of the variety commonly called "mud-dauber" last summer built her nest on the ceiling of my room in one corner. The windows of this room remained open night and day during the hot summer months, so her nest was easy of access. One day, while the wasp was busy about her home, I closed all the windows and awaited developments. At length she ...

— The Dawn of Reason - or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals • James Weir

... remarked that he had just thought of a very good place to go if they decided to have a change. Three years ago he was working for Dauber and Botchit and they went to 'The First In and the Last Out' at Bashford. It was a very small place, but there was a field where you could have a game of cricket or football, and the dinner was A1 ...

— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell

... sell in times like these," gravely replied the old dauber. "For myself, I am not a painter of ...

— His Excellency the Minister • Jules Claretie

... "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