daubery
English
Alternative forms
- daubry
Etymology
daub + -ery
Noun
daubery (countable and uncountable, plural dauberies)
- A daubing; specious colouring; false pretenses.
- Shakespeare
- She works by charms, by spells, by the figure, and such daubery as this is.
- Shakespeare
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for daubery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- Beaudry