🎨 An unskilled painter 🖌️ A painting tool

dauber

1 8.6

A tool used to put paint or glue on a surface roughly

noun
/ˈdɔːbər/

Offensive

: aplicador de pintura

That damn dauber's not...

Examples

And we also thought that paper Wasps were dirt daubers, and we were wrong.
"My mother, clutching her bingo dauber, looked skeptical."

Fiction book (2002)
The artist used a simple dauber to apply paint to the canvas, creating a rough texture.
With his dauber in hand, she painted the walls of her room in bright colors.
He is a known dauber, often slapping paint on surfaces without much precision.

Synonyms

dabber

vsdauber

1 6.3

A small tool for marking cards and applying a little paint or glue

applies material roughly over areas without precision or fine control

lacker

vsdauber

9.8

A person who applies a shiny protective coating to wood or a tool for applying it

applies coatings roughly without skill rather than focusing on a specific finish

Antonyms

craftsman

39 2.8

A person who makes useful or beautiful things by hand and is very skilled

expert

3 3.5

Very skilled and knowing a lot about a particular area

Compounds

mud dauber

8.1

A wasp that makes a nest from mud and keeps spiders to feed its young

How Rough

dauber

Offensive

1 8.6

trowel

10 4.8

roller

20 2.0

to brush

242 1.0

sprayer

4 2.4

Surface Forms

dauber singular

daubers plural

Morphology

dauber = daub (transparent) = daub + er

Standard nominalization with '-er' forming an agent or instrument from the verb 'daub'.

Etymology

Dauber comes from the verb daub, 'to smear', and can mean a tool or brush used to apply paint quickly and roughly, giving a rough or textured finish.