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発音

• IPA: /ˈdɔːbə(ɹ)/

名詞

dauber (plural daubers)

1. (derogatory) One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:unskilled person

   • 1853, Shearjashub Spooner, Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3)‎, page 140:

     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.

   • 1869, Louisa May Alcott, Good Wives:

     I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a common-place dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

   • 2015, Erich Maria Remarque, The Promised Land‎, Random House, →ISBN, page 412:

     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.

2. (copperplate printing) A pad or ball of rags, covered with canvas, for inking plates.

   Synonyms: dabber, inkball

3. A type of thick marker pen used to mark a bingo card.

   Synonyms: dabber, dobber

   • 2007, “Fluorescent Adolescent”, in Favourite Worst Nightmare, performed by Arctic Monkeys:

     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?

4. (archaic) A low and gross flatterer.
5. The mud wasp; the mud dauber.

派生語

• dirt-dauber

派生した語

• Arabic: → دَبْر (dabr, “mud dauber”)

アナグラム

• Bauder, ear bud, ear-bud, earbud, redaub