Apply crudely, as paint

The answer

DAUB

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DAUB answer page.

Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for DAUB

Every other clue in this collection answered by DAUB, most used first.

• Smear - used 80 times, most recently in 2026
• Paint crudely - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Apply crudely - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• Paint unskillfully - used 17 times, most recently in 2015
• Apply finger paint - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• Paint sloppily - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Smear (on) - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Paint poorly - used 10 times, most recently in 2014
• Slap on - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
• Apply haphazardly - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Finger-paint - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Apply paint hastily - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• Apply sloppily - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Paint carelessly - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Slap on, as paint - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Smear, as paint - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Paint layer - COAT, used 89 times
• Layer of paint - COAT, used 85 times
• Paint can direction - STIR, used 20 times
• Paint can instruction - STIR, used 12 times
• Apply the brakes - SLOW, used 11 times
• Drop of paint - BLOB, used 11 times

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