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plural daubers
(derogatory) One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter. quotations examples
After he had exerted all his powers to produce a masterpiece of art, the canons, upon viewing the picture, pronounced it a contemptible performance, and the artist a miserable dauber; and Vandyck could hardly obtain payment for his work.
1853, Shearjashub Spooner, Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3), page 140
I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a common-place dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
1869, Louisa May Alcott, Good Wives
I'm not a good painter; I'm a dauber who can get a good likeness. Van Gogh or Cézanne would never have made it; I was given a bottle of Beaujolais and a set of directions.
2015, Erich Maria Remarque, The Promised Land, Random House, page 412
(copperplate printing) A pad or ball of rags, covered with canvas, for inking plates. examples
A type of thick marker pen used to mark a bingo card. quotations examples
Said she wasn't going but she went still / Likes her gentlemen not to be gentle / Was it a Mecca dauber or a betting pencil?
2007, “Fluorescent Adolescent”, in Favourite Worst Nightmare, performed by Arctic Monkeys
(archaic) A low and gross flatterer.
The mud wasp; the mud dauber. examples