daubery

English

Alternative forms

daubry

Etymology

daub +‎ -ery

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdɔːbəɹi/

Noun

daubery (countable and uncountable, plural dauberies)

A daubing; specious colouring; false pretenses.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
  She works by charms, by spells, by the figure, and such daubery as this is.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Beaudry