dauber
French, verb/do.be/
dauber is spelled D-A-U-B-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 27 million words in written French, the 166,446th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dauber is a French verb meaning “to hit; to strike” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Frapper ; rouer de coups”.
What does dauber mean in English?
verb
- 1
datedto hit; to strike
- 2
to insult; to denigrate; to defame
- 3
to stink
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Frapper ; rouer de coups. 2. Dénigrer ; railler. 3. Dire du mal de quelqu’un ou de quelque chose ; dénigrer. 4. En parlant d’un mets, tourner ou avoir tourné et sentir mauvais.
verb: 1. Préparer une viande, une volaille en daube.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of dauber
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- daubant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- daubé participle past
- daube first-person indicative present
- daubes indicative present second-person
- daubons first-person indicative plural
- daubez indicative plural present
- daubent indicative plural present
- daubais first-person imperfect indicative
- daubait imperfect indicative singular
- daubions first-person imperfect indicative
- daubiez imperfect indicative plural
- daubaient imperfect indicative plural
- daubai first-person historic indicative
- daubas historic indicative past
- dauba historic indicative past
- daubâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dauber?
- /do.be/
- \do.be\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is dauber in French?
dauber appears about once in every 27 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).