Meaning of Dauber | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname from German.
2. One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.
   derogatory
3. A pad or ball of rags, covered with canvas, for inking plates.
4. A type of thick marker pen used to mark a bingo card.
5. A low and gross flatterer.
   archaic
6. The mud wasp; the mud dauber.

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Examples

“After he had exerted all his powers to produce a masterpiece of art, the canons, upon viewing the picture, pronounced it a contemptible performance, and the artist a miserable dauber; and Vandyck could hardly obtain payment for his work.”

“I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a common-place dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.”

“I'm not a good painter; I'm a dauber who can get a good likeness. Van Gogh or Cézanne would never have made it; I was given a bottle of Beaujolais and a set of directions.”

“Said she wasn't going but she went still / Likes her gentlemen not to be gentle / Was it a Mecca dauber or a betting pencil?”

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