dirt-dauber

noun

A common labourer who makes mud walls.

Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

noundirt-dauber (plural dirt-daubers)

plural dirt-daubers

  1. obsoleteA common labourer who makes mud walls.

    If[…]that I am a younger brother, basely born[…], of mean parentage, a dirt-dauber’s son, “am I therefore to be blamed?”

    1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 3, member 3
Cite this entry
APA

dirt-dauber. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dirt-dauber

MLA

“dirt-dauber.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dirt-dauber. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dirt-dauber,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dirt-dauber.

Source: dirt-dauber on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.