1. To put or spread a semiliquid substance such as mud, paint, or cream, on a surface in a crude, hurried, or irregular way: "The boys daubed slogans all over the walls."
2. To paint or to apply paint crudely.
3. A patch, splash, or smear of a semiliquid substance applied to something in a crude, hurried, or irregular way.
4. A mixture of clay, lime, and chopped straw plastered onto interwoven rods or twigs to make a wall.
5. Etymology: from Old French dauber, "to whitewash, to plaster", probably from Latin dealbare, from de-, "thoroughly" + albare, "to whiten" from albus "white".