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Is daub a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word daub is a Scrabble US word. The word daub is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

D2A1U1B3

Is daub a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word daub is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

D2A1U1B3

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Yes. The word daub is a Words With Friends word. The word daub is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

D2A1U2B4

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4-letter words (3 found)

BAUD,BUDA,DAUB,

3-letter words (4 found)

BAD,BUD,DAB,DUB,

2-letter words (4 found)

AB,AD,BA,DA,

You can make 11 words from daub according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of daub

daub adub duab udab audb uadb dabu adbu dbau bdau abdu badu duba udba dbua bdua ubda buda aubd uabd abud baud ubad buad

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Definitions and meaning of daub

daub

Etymology

From Middle English daub (noun), from Middle English dauben (“to plaster or whitewash; cover with clay; bespatter”, verb), from Old Northern French dauber (“to whitewash; plaster”), of uncertain origin. Probably from Latin dealbāre (“to whiten thoroughly”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /dɔːb/
  • (US) IPA(key): /dɔb/, /dɑb/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːb

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.

Derived terms

  • wattle and daub

Related terms

  • (dab): dab, pat, splat

Translations

Verb

daub (third-person singular simple present daubs, present participle daubing, simple past and past participle daubed)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.
    Synonyms: apply, coat, cover, plaster, smear
  2. (transitive) To paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner.
    • 1826, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, An Essay on Mind, Book I, in The Earlier Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1826-1833, London: Bartholomew Robson, 1878, pp. 25-26,[5]
      If some gay picture, vilely daubed, were seen
      With grass of azure, and a sky of green,
      Th’impatient laughter we’d suppress in vain,
      And deem the painter jesting, or insane.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To flatter excessively or grossly.
  5. (transitive, obsolete) To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.
    • 1697, John Dryden, “On the Three Dukes killing the Beadle on Sunday Morning, Febr. the 26th, 1670/1” in John Denham et al., Poems on affairs of state from the time of Oliver Cromwell, to the abdication of K. James the Second, London, p. 148,[8]
      Yet shall Whitehall the Innocent, the Good,
      See these men dance all daub’d with Lace and Blood.

Derived terms

  • dauber (“unskilled painter”)

Translations

See also

  • dab

Further reading

  • daub on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Buda, Duba, abud, baud

Source: wiktionary.org