Daub vs Begrease - What's the difference?
daub | begrease |
Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction .
A soft coating of mud, plaster etc.
A crude or amateurish painting.
To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.
To apply something to (a surface) in hasty or crude strokes.
* Bible, Exodus ii. 3
To paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner.
* I. Watts
* Dryden
To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
* Shakespeare
To flatter excessively or glossy.
* Smollett
To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.
* Dryden
In transitive terms the difference between daub and begrease
is that daub is to paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner while begrease is to soil or daub with grease or other oily matter.As a noun daub
is excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction compare wattle and daub.daub
English
(wikipedia daub)Noun
Verb
(en verb)- The artist just seemed to daub on paint at random and suddenly there was a painting.
- She took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch.
- If a picture is daubed with many bright and glaring colours, the vulgar admire it as an excellent piece.
- a lame, imperfect piece, rudely daubed over
- So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue.
- I can safely say, however, that, without any daubing at all, I am very sincerely your very affectionate, humble servant.
- Let him be daubed with lace.
