dirt-dauber

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English

Noun

dirt-dauber (plural dirt-daubers)

  1. (obsolete) A common labourer who makes mud walls.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      , II.3.3:
      If that I am a younger brother, basely born , of mean parentage, a dirt-dauber’s son, “am I therefore to be blamed?”