dauber

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see also: Dauber

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Noun

dauber (plural daubers)

1. (derogatory) One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.

   Synonyms: Thesaurus:unskilled person

   • 1853, Shearjashub Spooner, Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3), page 140 ↗:

     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.

   • 1869, Louisa May Alcott, Good Wives

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

   • 2015, Erich Maria Remarque, The Promised Land, Random House (ISBN 9781448138265), page 412 ↗:

     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.

2. (copperplate printing) A pad or ball of rags, covered with canvas, for inking plates; a dabber.
3. A type of thick marker pen used to mark a bingo card.

   Synonyms: dabber, dobber

4. (archaic) A low and gross flatterer.
5. The mud wasp; the mud dauber.

Translations

• French: barbouilleur
• German: Pinseler, Kleckser, Schmierer
• Italian: imbianchino, imbrattatele

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Dauber

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Proper noun

1. Surname

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