daub
verb
[ dɔːb ]
• carelessly coat or smear (a surface) with a thick or sticky substance.
• "the walls were daubed with splashes of paint"
Similar:
bedaub,
smear,
plaster,
bespatter,
splash,
stain,
spatter,
splatter,
cake,
cover thickly,
smother,
coat,
deface,
slap,
besmear,
befoul,
besmirch,
begrime,
daub
noun
• a patch or smear of a thick or sticky substance.
• "a daub of paint"
Similar:
smear,
smudge,
splash,
blot,
spot,
patch,
pop,
blotch,
stain,
mark,
splodge,
• plaster, clay, or another substance used for coating a surface, especially when mixed with straw and applied to laths or wattles to form a wall.
• "wattle and daub"
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French dauber, from Latin dealbare ‘whiten, whitewash’, based on albus ‘white’.
