dauby

Adjective

dauby (comparative more dauby, superlative most dauby)

1. Smeary; viscous; glutinous; adhesive.
   • dauby wax
   • ... day of dauby rain clouds. He looked over the plains that ran down from the hill. He looked at it all as if he had never seen it before and some strange meaning exuded from the grass, and from the bushes, from the trees, and from the black clay,[…]1944, Mary Lavin, The Long Ago & Other Stories, London, M. Joseph Limited [1944]