daubers

Noun

dauber (plural daubers)

1. (derogatory) One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.
   • 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.1853, Shearjashub Spooner, Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3), page 140

   Synonyms:

   alcatote, auf, botcher, bumbler, bungler, blunderer, blunderhead, butterfingers, chucklehead, clodhopper

2. (copperplate printing) A pad or ball of rags, covered with canvas, for inking plates.

   Synonyms:

   dabber, inkball

3. A type of thick marker pen used to mark a bingo card.
   • 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?2007, “Fluorescent Adolescent”, in Favourite Worst Nightmare, performed by Arctic Monkeys

   Synonyms:

   dabber, dobber

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

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