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DAUBER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dauber mean?
• DAUBER (noun)
The noun DAUBER has 1 sense:
1. an unskilled painter
Familiarity information: DAUBER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An unskilled painter
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("dauber" is a kind of...):
painter (an artist who paints)
Derivation:
daub (cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it)
Context examples
I am a dauber in clay.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I won't be a common-place dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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