daub

About 0.26 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction.
2. noun A soft coating of mud, plaster, etc.
3. noun A crude or amateurish painting.
4. 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.

5. verb To paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner.
6. verb To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
7. verb To flatter excessively or grossly.
8. verb To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.

Similar words

plaster spot smear blot smudge smirch slur wattle blob dawb

Often followed by

of and the walls with huts houses it construction

Word family

daubed daubing daubs