daub
Slap paint carelessly
Daub means to smear or coat a surface with something thick and sticky, often in a careless or rough manner.
You might daub paint on a wall, mud on a hut, or ointment on a wound.
The word suggests application without much finesse or precision: She daubed sunscreen on the kids before they ran off.
As a noun, a daub is a smear or blob of something, or dismissively, a badly executed painting: The gallery was full of amateur daubs.
Spread or defame
- plasterWall-coating paste
- slatherApply thickly, liberally
- spreadTo distribute widely
- coatOuter garment or layer
slap · blob · glob · dollop · schmear · layer · apply · cover
Hanging throat skin
- clayMoldable earth for ceramics
- strawTube for sipping
- cobMaize ear's central cylinder
- adobeSun-dried clay bricks
render · infill · timber frame · earthen wall · mud hut · thatched cottage · lime wash · binder
Traditional community-made creativity
- naive artUntrained, childlike creative work
- rough sketchUnfinished preliminary drawing
- finger paintingArt using digits directly
smear
Spread or defame
coat · slap · blob · glob · dollop · schmear · layer · apply · cover · paste
wattle
Hanging throat skin
adobe · render · infill · timber frame · earthen wall · mud hut · thatched cottage · lime wash · binder · chinking
folk art
Traditional community-made creativity
- naive artUntrained, childlike creative work
- rough sketchUnfinished preliminary drawing
- finger paintingArt using digits directly
- building materialslumber, concrete blocks, concrete, wood, brick
- traditional materialsadobe, brick, stone, wood, thatch
- earthen structuresadobe, cob, rammed earth, mudbrick, earthen wall
- Old Craftsmasonry, carpentry, thatching, joinery, timber framing
- mud constructionmud house, mud hut, mud walls, mudbrick, adobe
- gambling cheatscard mechanic, marked cards, stacked deck, card sharp, collusion
daubmasterpiece
Supreme artistic achievement
masterwork · fine art · craft · craftsmanship · compose
- bingo dauberInk stamper for cards
- mud dauberWasp constructing earthen nests