different between dauber vs dobber

English

Etymology

From Middle English daubere, equivalent to daub +? -er.

Noun

dauber (plural daubers)

1. (derogatory) One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:unskilled person

   • 1853, Shearjashub Spooner, Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3), page 140:

     After he had exerted all his powers to produce a masterpiece of art, the canons, upon viewing the picture, pronounced it a contemptible performance, and the artist a miserable dauber; and Vandyck could hardly obtain payment for his work.

   • 1869, Louisa May Alcott, Good Wives

     I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a common-place dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

   • 2015, Erich Maria Remarque, The Promised Land, Random House (?ISBN), page 412:

     I'm not a good painter; I'm a dauber who can get a good likeness. Van Gogh or Cézanne would never have made it; I was given a bottle of Beaujolais and a set of directions.

2. (copperplate printing) A pad or ball of rags, covered with canvas, for inking plates; a dabber.
3. A type of thick marker pen used to mark a bingo card.

   Synonyms: dabber, dobber

4. (archaic) A low and gross flatterer.
5. The mud wasp; the mud dauber.

Translations

Anagrams

• Bauder, ear bud, ear-bud, earbud

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do.be/

Verb

dauber

1. (dated) to hit; to strike
2. (by extension) to insult; to denigrate; to defame

Conjugation

Further reading

• “dauber” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Alternative forms

• dober

Etymology

Origin obscure. Probably from a merger of Latin dealb?re (“to whiten”), Frankish *dubban (“to hit, push”),and Old Norse dubba (“to dub, arm, equip, furnish”).

Verb

dauber

1. to whiten; whitewash
2. to provide with; to furnish with
3. to hit; to strike
4. to insult; to denigrate; to defame

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-b, *-bs, *-bt are modified to p, s, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Related terms

• adober

Descendants

• English: daub
• French: dauber

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?b?(?)

Noun

dobber (plural dobbers)

1. A type of thick marker pen used to mark a bingo card.

   Synonyms: dabber, dauber
2. (Britain, derogatory) A member of the working class in Scotland or Ireland who is seen as undereducated, with poor taste, especially in clothes, and poor social skills; closely connected to chav.
3. (Australia, Britain, derogatory) One who dobs (informs against or implicates to authority).

   Nikki is such a dobber, she told the teacher that I hit Karen in the playground.

   • 1999, William De Maria, Deadly Disclosures: Whistleblowing and the Ethical Meltdown of Australia, page 16,

     In awakening us to our powerlessness, whistleblowers produce all sorts of crisscrossed emotions. Should we respond to them as truth-bearing ethical citizens, or spiteful, griping dobbers?

   • 2010, Lisa Heidke, What Kate Did Next, page 125,

     ‘Not only that,’ Graeme continued, ‘but Simone?s a dobber – and no-one likes a dobber, do they, K? […] ’

   • 2011, James Morton, Susanna Lobez, Gangland Melbourne, page 95,

     The question was whether the dobber had simply dobbed or whether he had planted the weapons.

4. (Britain, informal) Any small electronic device that plugs directly into a larger one, such as a wireless scoring system in fencing or a USB mass storage device.
5. (Britain, Ireland, chiefly dialect) A large marble.
   • 2004, Austin O'Donovan, O'Donovan from Garryowen (page 37)

     They were the biggest rosary beads I ever saw, the beads were the size of big marbles or dobbers or taws. Dobbers and taws we used to play with in the channels beside the footpaths, when we used to play the road games.

6. (US, regional) A float (as used by an angler).
   • 2007, William G. Tapply, Trout Eyes: True Tales of Adventure, Travel, and Fly-Fishing, page 191,

     In attaching this dobber or float, tie it on as short a tippet as you can manage and attach it to the leader from four to six feet above the nymph.

7. A dabchick.

Anagrams

• robbed

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch dobber. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?b?r/
• Hyphenation: dob?ber
• Rhymes: -?b?r

Noun

dobber m (plural dobbers, diminutive dobbertje n)

1. float (buoyant device used when fishing)

Derived terms

• dobberen
• een harde dobber (“something hard to accomplish or to solve”)

References