daub/dab

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Thu May 15 18:14:29 UTC 2008


At 5/15/2008 12:18 AM, Your Name wrote:
>can't think of any context in which "daubing" could not be replaced with
>"dabbing."  I've always thot they were synonyms.

Does a mediocre painter (of the artist subclass) daub or dab?

Joel

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