name
Meaning 1
A surname from German.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
dauber
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/ˈdɔːbə(ɹ)/
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CMU ARPABET: D AW1 B ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: alcatote, auf, botcher, bumbler, bungler, blunderer, blunderhead, butterfingers, chucklehead, clodhopper, dauber, duffer, dumbshit, fuckup, fumblefingers, fumbler, galoot, gaum, gawk, gobaloon, goon, gype, trapes, klutz, lomperd, looby, lubber, lummox, lumpkin, maladroit, mess-up, messup, muff, oaf, palooka, peabrain, pisher, sad sack, schlemiel, schmuck, screwup, shit bird, slangrill, spaz, stumblebum, turkey, weapon, yutz
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A pad or ball of rags, covered with canvas, for inking plates.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: copperplate printing
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Synonyms: dabber, inkball
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A type of thick marker pen used to mark a bingo card.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dabber, dobber
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
A low and gross flatterer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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noun
Meaning 6
The mud wasp; the mud dauber.
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noun
Meaning 7
an unskilled painter
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: painter
History
Etymology
Borrowed from German Dauber.
From Middle English daubere, equivalent to daub + -er.
Across languages
Translations
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Czech: patlal — unskillful painter
- Danish: klatmaler — unskillful painter
- Esperanto: fipentristo — unskillful painter
- French: barbouilleur — unskillful painter
- French: rapin — unskillful painter
- German: Pinseler — unskillful painter
- German: Kleckser — unskillful painter
- German: Schmierer — unskillful painter
- Italian: imbianchino — unskillful painter
- Italian: imbrattatele — unskillful painter
- Italian: imbrattatore — unskillful painter
- Polish: pacykarz — unskillful painter
- Polish: bohomaz — unskillful painter
- Serbo-Croatian: mazalo — unskillful painter