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Dirt vs Daub - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between dirt and daub

is that dirt is soil or earth while daub is excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction compare wattle and daub.

As verbs the difference between dirt and daub

is that dirt is to make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty while daub is to apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.

As an acronym DIRT

is Deposit Interest Retention Tax

dirt

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • soil or earth
  • A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance
  • Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person; gossip
    • The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover.
  • Meanness; sordidness.
  • * Melmoth
    • honours thrown away upon dirt and infamy
  • In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.

    • Derived terms

    * dirt bike * dirt nap * dirty * do someone dirt

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare) To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty

    • daub

    English

    (wikipedia daub)

    Noun

  • Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction .
  • A soft coating of mud, plaster etc.
  • A crude or amateurish painting.

    • Related terms

    * (dab) dab, pat, splat

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.
    • The artist just seemed to daub on paint at random and suddenly there was a painting.
  • To apply something to (a surface) in hasty or crude strokes.
  • * Bible, Exodus ii. 3
    • She took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch.
  • To paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner.
  • * I. Watts
    • If a picture is daubed with many bright and glaring colours, the vulgar admire it as an excellent piece.
  • * Dryden
    • a lame, imperfect piece, rudely daubed over
  • To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
  • * Shakespeare
    • So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue.
  • To flatter excessively or glossy.
  • * Smollett
    • I can safely say, however, that, without any daubing at all, I am very sincerely your very affectionate, humble servant.
  • To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.
  • * Dryden
    • Let him be daubed with lace.

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