daub/dab

[Herb Stahlke]

Perhaps (s)he's a daubler.

Herb

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:49 PM, sagehen <sagehen at westelcom.com> wrote:
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> on 5/15/08 2:14 PM, Joel S. Berson at Berson at ATT.NET wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> Does a mediocre painter (of the artist subclass) daub or dab?
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>> Joel
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> ~~~~~~~~~If (s)he's a dab hand at the art, (s)he will probably produce
> something better than a daub.  A watercolorist would probably be limited to
> dabbing, but might turn out a daub.
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