1. the action of coating or smearing something with a sticky substance
2. crude or unskillful painting
Usage: often derogatory

1. present participle of daub; coating or smearing with a sticky or greasy substance

Examples

• She was daubing paint on the canvas with broad strokes.
• The child enjoyed daubing finger paints across the paper.
• He spent the morning daubing mud on the fence posts.
• The artist’s daubing lacked technique but showed enthusiasm.
• Stop daubing that sticky mixture everywhere!
• The wall needed daubing with fresh plaster.
• Her daubing of watercolors created an abstract effect.