Daub (Mud dauber)

[Tom Zurinskas]

In bingo there is a wide-point  (3/4 inch diam) ink pen that is used to mark cards with one push.  It's usually called a dauber ~dauber, but I like calling it a dabber ~daber.  However it's not called a dobber ~daaber, which is a float attached to fishing line that bobs when fish bite (unless of course mispronounced by the awe-droppers).

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
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> Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 21:55:37 -0500
> From: dwhause at JOBE.NET
> Subject: Re: Daub (Mud dauber)
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> Sender: American Dialect Society
> Poster: Dave Hause
> Subject: Re: Daub (Mud dauber)
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> I'm familiar with a wasp called a mud dauber (and that's the only definition
> in the NOAD by my chair.) Where does a bird go by that name? Species?
> Dave Hause, dwhause at jobe.net
> Waynesville, MO
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> From: "Your Name"
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> "Daub" includes dealing with liquids that way; but consider the bird called
> a mud-dauber; it daubs a solid (tho somewhat moist) substance.
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