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dauber

1 9.4

A person who paints pictures in a rough, unskilled way

noun
/ˈdɔːbər/

Offensive

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Many critics dismissed his work as that of a mere dauber who lacked real talent.

Examples

Graffiti daubers.

Blog text (9)
No, you decorative little dauber.

Fiction book (2000)
And I will not be some commonplace dauber, and I don't intend to try anymore.

Little Women (2019)
She was called a dauber because her paintings were overly simplistic and lacked detail.
The art teacher warned her students not to become daubers who only slopped paint onto the canvas.

Synonyms

bodger

vsdauber

Offensive

9.7

A person who does work in a careless or clumsy way

does painting poorly, showing lack of artistic skill rather than general clumsiness

Antonyms

professional

401 3.7

A person who has special training and works in a skilled job

Compounds

mud dauber

8.1

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

How Skilled

master

791 4.2

professional

401 3.7

amateur

122 2.8

dauber

Offensive

1 9.4

beginner

81 1.0

Surface Forms

dauber singular

daubers plural

Morphology

dauber = daub (transparent) = daub + er

Regular agentive formation from the verb 'daub' with the predictable meaning 'one who daubs'.

Etymology

Dauber comes from the simple verb daub, which means 'to smear' or 'to cover roughly'. So a dauber is someone who paints in a rough, unskilled way, like a person who just smears paint on a surface.