dauber
Plural: daubers
Noun
- A person or tool that smears or applies paint inexpertly.
- an unskilled painter
- One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.
- A pad or ball of rags, covered with canvas, for inking plates.
- A type of thick marker pen used to mark a bingo card.
- A low and gross flatterer.
- The mud wasp; the mud dauber.
Examples
- He felt like a dauber, just haphazardly placing tiles in Words With Friends.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English daubere, equivalent to daub + -er.
Synonyms
alcatote, auf, blunderer, blunderhead, botcher, bumbler, bungler, butterfingers, chucklehead, clodhopper, dabber, dauber, dobber, duffer, dumbshit, fuckup, fumblefingers, fumbler, galoot, gaum, gawk, gobaloon, goon, gype, inkball, klutz, lomperd, looby, lubber, lummox, lumpkin, maladroit, mess-up, messup, muff, oaf, palooka, peabrain, pisher, sad sack, schlemiel, schmuck, screwup, shit bird, slangrill, spaz, stumblebum, trapes, turkey, weapon, yutz
Scrabble Score: 9
dauber: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddauber: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
dauber: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary