OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 36496

daub

/dɔːb/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
pintarrajo
A crude or amateurish painting.
Ah, but what if he penned what in the art schools they call an 'artist's statement' wherein he explained the relation of his gibberish or his daubs to the mainstream of art or writ…
Phrases
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 36497

daub

/dɔːb/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
embadurnar • manchar • pintarrajear • untar
To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.
The artist just seemed to daub on paint at random and suddenly there was a painting.
[…] she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch […]