daubern.
/ˈdɔːbə/, U.S. /ˈdɔbər/, /ˈdɑbər/ One who or that which daubs.† 1. One who plasters or covers walls with mortar, clay, etc.; a plasterer; one who builds with daub. Obsolete.† 2. One who puts a false show on things; a hypocritical flatterer. Obsolete.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] > plasterer or rough-caster
daubera1382
plasterer1440
pargenar1501
dirt-dauber?1518
pargeter1538
roughcaster1594
spargener1600
seiler1672
smear1725
tarras-layer1819
parge-worker1908
c1300 Lib. Cust. Edw. I I. 99 (Godef.) De plastrers, de daubours, de teulers.]
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xli. 25 As a daubere, or a pottere to-tredende the lowe erthe.
1419 Liber Albus (Rolls Ser.) I. 289 Carpenters, masouns, plastrers, daubers, teulers.
1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xvi. ii. sig. kiij/1 Claye hyghte Argilla: & tough erthe..& ableth to dyuers werkes of dawbers [a1398 BL Add. crokkers].
?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. B.vi Parys plasterers, daubers, and lyme borners.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Kings xii. 12 To them that buylded and wroughte in the house of the Lorde, namely, to the dawbers and masons.
1600 W. Cornwallis Ess. I. xi. sig. G3 Strawe and durt, good onely for Thatchers and Dawbers.
1641 J. Milton Animadversions 62 Yet this Dauber would daub still with his untempered Morter.
1816 in Peel Spen Valley (1893) 288 [A plasterer who] under the sobriquet of Dick Dawber was known far and near.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Dauber, a builder of walls with clay or mud, mixed with stubble or short straw..In Norfolk it is now difficult to find a good dauber.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > [noun] > flatterer
fickler?c1225
losenger1303
glothererc1325
flatterera1340
blander1340
flatter1340
glozera1420
fleecherc1425
fager1435
soother1553
smooth-boots1599
sleekstonea1610
blandisher1611
cogger1611
over-prizer1611
smoother1611
colloguer1631
dauber1642
pargetera1656
flattercap1681
whillywhaa1682
sweetener1728
proneur1809
carney1818
soft-soaper1839
soft-solderer1851
smooth-sayer1872
incenser1873
soft-mouth1881
blarneyer1882
flannel-mouth1882
oiler1883
jollier1896
smoodger1898
plámáser1919
sweet-talker1946
smarmy1957
1642 D. Rogers Naaman 425 Put case, thou wert under the Ministery of a dawber and flatterer.
1653 R. Baxter Right Method Settled Peace 388 Meddle not with men-pleasers and daubers.
1692 E. Walker tr. Epictetus Enchiridion lxxi If praised, he can despise The fulsome Dawber, and his Flatteries.
3. A coarse or unskilful painter.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > qualities or styles of painting > [noun] > painting badly or carelessly > painter
dauber1655
pseudo-artist1831
daubster1853
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. i. 1 They were not Artists in that Mystery..being rather Dawbers then Drawers.
1697 J. Dryden Ded. Æneis in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. d1v It has been Copyed by so many Sign-post Daubers.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. xlvi. 61 What is the name of the dauber who painted that?
1880 Manch. Guard. 31 Dec. They will see..in David Cox something more than a dauber.
4. U.S. A species of sand-wasp: from the way in which it daubs mud in forming its nest.
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1844 Gosse in Zoologist 2 582 The little boys..informed me that these were the nests of dirt-daubers.
1889 in J. S. Farmer Americanisms
5. Anything used to daub with; e.g. a rag-brush or stump used to put blacking upon boots, where it is spread by the blacking-brush.
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