Crossword-Solution: DAUB 4 letters, 234 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Daub	v. t.	To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.
Daub	v. t.	To paint in a coarse or unskillful manner.
Daub	v. t.	To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
Daub	v. t.	To flatter excessively or glossy.
Daub	v. t.	To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.
Daub	v. i.	To smear; to play the flatterer.
Daub	n.	A viscous, sticky application; a spot smeared or dabed; a smear.
Daub	n.	A picture coarsely executed.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
DAUB	anagram	ABUD, ADUB, BADU, BAUD, BUDA, DUAB

We have 234 clues for the answer “DAUB”

Clue	Answers
Amateur painting	1 answer
Amateurish painting	1 answer
Amateurishly Paint	1 answer
Apply a mudpack	1 answer
Apply amateurishly	1 answer
Apply artlessly	1 answer
Apply badly	1 answer
Apply carelessly, as paint	1 answer
Apply crudely, as paint	1 answer
Apply finger paints	1 answer
Apply fingerpaint	1 answer
Apply freely.	1 answer
Apply haphazardly, as paint	1 answer
Apply in a slapdash way	1 answer
Apply makeup, for example	1 answer
Apply paint crudely	1 answer
Apply paint hastily	1 answer
Apply paint in a rather patchy way	1 answer
Apply roughly	1 answer
Apply with a spatula, say	1 answer
Apply without care, as paint	1 answer
Apply, as Plaster	1 answer
Apply, as plaster or paint	1 answer
Bad painting.	1 answer
Besmear, as a canvas	1 answer
Brush carelessly	1 answer
COAT wall with	1 answer
Child's painting.	1 answer
Clumsy smear	1 answer
Coat with plaster, say	1 answer
Coat, as with plaster	1 answer
Coat, with "on"	1 answer
Color crudely	1 answer
Cover with broad strokes	1 answer
Cover with wide strokes	1 answer
Crude painting	1 answer
Crudely Apply	1 answer
Dilettante's painting	1 answer
Do some crude painting	1 answer
Do some finger-painting	1 answer
Finger paint effort.	1 answer
Fingerpainting	1 answer
Haphazardly smear on	1 answer
Inartistic botch.	1 answer
Lay it on thick, as paint	1 answer
Mark on a bingo card	1 answer
Mud plastering.	1 answer
PAINT coarsely	1 answer
PAINT inartistically	1 answer
Paint amateurishly	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ETRAE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with DAUB (5)

Ivar came running with his white bag, and the moment he got to her she was quiet and let him saw her horn off and daub the place with tar.” Emil had been watching his sister, his face reflecting the sufferings of the cow.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

You believe it yourself, my father?” “Believe it, my daughter? With this evidence!” And the old man turned afresh, with a staring, wondering homage, to the audacious daub on the easel.

The American Henry James 1994

Said one--"Folks of a surly Tapster tell, And daub his Visage with the Smoke of Hell; They talk of some strict Testing of us--Pish! He's a Good Fellow, and 'twill all be well." LXV.

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Omar Khayyam 1995

The boy continued to be called by his worldly name of Filippo, *2* and being placed with others, who like himself were in the house of the novices, under the care of the master, to the end that the latter might see what could be done with him; in place of studying, he never did anything but daub his own books, and those of the other boys, with caricatures, whereupon the prior determined to give him all means and every opportunity for learning to draw.

Introduction to Robert Browning Hiram Corson 2008

And as for posterity—damn posterity.” Philip smiled, for it leaped to one’s eyes that the artist in life had produced no more than a wretched daub.

Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham 1995

Quotes with DAUB (3)

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.

Henry David Thoreau

Families could often trace their lineage back several centuries. Their livelihood was earned from drum playing, a service considered to be dis-respectable. As members of a low caste, the drummers were forbidden to build decent houses. There were allowed to build wattle and daub huts, and to live rent-free on their patrons' properties. The right to own the country's land was restricted in this manner, a vicious condition that arose through tradition and was reinforced by law. …

Swarnakanthi Rajapakse The Master's Daughter

Answering the question 'How would you like to smell?' by saying 'I'd rather I didn't' is also no longer acceptable. It's not playing the game. Men are expected to put some cash into the cosmetic pot too - it's seen as almost un-feminist not to. What a uniquely capitalist response to that gender inequality: women have been forced by convention for generations - millennia - to spend money on expensive clothes and agonising shoes, to daub themselves with reality-concealing slap,…

David Mitchell

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 282 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).