daubery

/ˈdɔːbəɹi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

Countable; Uncountable

"She works by charms, by spells, by the figure, and such daubery as this is."
"No one thought seriously of botany; it was a sort of fringe on the educational garment, pretty enough, but only adapted to girls to be taken as an accomplishment and classed with decorative daubery and other fancy work."

From daub + -ery.

dauberies (plural) daubry (alternative)

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How do you pronounce daubery?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈdɔːbəɹi/.

What does daubery mean?

A daubing; specious colouring; false pretenses.

Where does daubery come from?

From daub + -ery.

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