1. A patch, splash, or smear of a semiliquid substance applied to something in a crude, hurried, or irregular way: The famous painting looked like a daub, or unskilled paining, and was worth a million Euros!
2. A mixture of clay, lime, and chopped straw: When Tom was building his simple garden shed, he plastered daub onto interwoven rods or twigs to make a wall.

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: The famous painted just daubed various colors of paint in a skilful manner and produced a fantastic painting!
3. Etymology: from Old French dauber, "to whitewash, to plaster", probably from Latin dealbare, from de-, "thoroughly" + albare, "to whiten" from albus "white".