dauber

1. 1.

   an unskilled painter

   Broaderpainter

Other forms of dauber

plural

daubers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dauber

What does dauber mean?

dauber means "an unskilled painter".

How many syllables are in dauber?

dauber has 2 syllables: dau-ber. The stress falls on "dau". In IPA it is /ˈdaʊbɚ/.

Is dauber a common word?

dauber is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.