Dauber

//ˈdɔːbə(ɹ)//

Synonyms for "dauber" (61 found)

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Closest matches (13)

Noun(11 words)

dabber alcatote auf blunderer blunderhead botcher bumbler bungler butterfingers chucklehead clodhopper

artisan artist

Strong matches (18)

copyist craftsman creator

Noun(15 words)

dobber duffer dumbshit fuckup fumblefingers fumbler galoot gaum gawk gobaloon goon gype inkball klutz lomperd

Related words (30)

Noun(27 words)

looby lubber lummox lumpkin maladroit mess-up messup muff oaf palooka peabrain pisher sad sack schlemiel schmuck screwup shit bird shitter slangrill smearer

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spaz stumblebum trapes turkey unskilled person weapon yutz

maker master old master

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

1 entries

painter

derived

1 entries

dirt-dauber

has context

1 entries

copperplate printing

is a

1 entries

painter

related to

7 entries

dabber daub flatterer mud dauber mud wasp painter unskillful

Translations

14 translations across 8 languages.

Czech

1 entries

patlal noun (unskillful painter)

Danish

1 entries

klatmaler noun (unskillful painter)

Esperanto

1 entries

fipentristo noun (unskillful painter)

French

2 entries

barbouilleur noun (unskillful painter)
rapin noun (unskillful painter)

German

3 entries

Kleckser noun (unskillful painter)
Pinseler noun (unskillful painter)
Schmierer noun (unskillful painter)

Italian

3 entries

imbianchino noun (unskillful painter)
imbrattatele noun (unskillful painter)
imbrattatore noun (unskillful painter)

Polish

2 entries

bohomaz noun (unskillful painter)
pacykarz noun (unskillful painter)

Serbo-Croatian

1 entries

mazalo noun (unskillful painter)

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

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.

Source: wiktionary

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

Source: wiktionary

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.

Source: wiktionary

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?

Source: wiktionary

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