daub vs speck

daub

noun
  • A soft coating of mud, plaster, etc. 

  • Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction. 

  • A crude or amateurish painting. 

verb
  • To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes. 

  • To paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner. 

speck

noun
  • A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc. 

  • A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol. 

  • The fat of the hippopotamus. 

  • A very small thing; a particle; a whit. 

  • Fat; lard; fat meat. 

  • The blubber of whales or other marine mammals. 

  • A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States. 

verb
  • To mark with specks; to speckle. 

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