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daubs

daubs is the plural of daub.

daubs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of daub.

Meaning of daub

Noun

daub (countable and uncountable, plural daubs)

  1. Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction.
  2. A soft coating of mud, plaster, etc.
  3. 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 writing?2008, Joseph Agassi, Ian Charles Jarvie, A Critical Rationalist Aesthetics, page 16

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Proper noun capitalized: Daubs

Daubs

  1. (plural) plural of Daub

Questions about daubs

What is daubs the plural of?
Daubs is the plural of daub.
What part of speech is daubs?
Daubs is a proper noun.

Words near daubs in the dictionary

  1. daubreeite
  2. daubreelite
  3. daubreelites
  4. daubréeite
  5. daubréelite
  6. daubs
  7. daubster
  8. daubsters
  9. dauby
  10. daucene
  11. daucosterol

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Adapted from Wiktionary: daubs (page history and authors); Daubs (page history and authors); daub (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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