Crossword clues for dab
dab
- Paint lightly
- Hair gel amount
- Gentle application
- Cream quantity
- Brylcreem quantity
- Brief application
- Bit of toothpaste
- Bit of lotion
- Bit of Brylcreem, say
- Apply, as makeup
- Apply with pats
- Apply with light strokes
- Apply ointment
- Apply lightly, as makeup
- Apply gently, as eye cream
- Apply daintily
- Apply carefully
- Apply Brylcreem, e.g
- Apply a small amount of, like cologne
- Word with sand or smack
- Use a wet napkin on, perhaps
- Use a napkin, perhaps
- Use a moist cotton ball
- Use a brush, in a way
- Use a 1D
- Unmeasured bit of hair gel
- Unit of hot mustard, for most
- Touch with a Q-tip
- Tiny bit of gel
- Tiny amount to apply
- Tiny amount of eye gel
- Tiny amount of eye cream
- Tap lightly, as with a paint brush
- Smidgen of hair gel
- Small North Atlantic flatfish
- Small dollop of eye cream, for example
- Small amount, as of cream
- Small amount of paint
- Small amount of lotion
- Small amount of hot sauce
- Small amount of glue
- Small amount of eye cream
- Small amount of cream
- Skin cream application
- Sand ____: flounder
- Sand ___ (Pacific flounder)
- Recommended Brylcreem amount
- Quick application
- Put on some concealer, say
- Put gently (on)
- Pat on gently
- Pat lightly
- Pat gently, as with cosmetics
- Participate in a dance craze popularized by Cam Newton
- Paint portion
- Ointment bit
- Ointment amount
- Not a big strike
- Modest amount
- Modern dance move
- Minor application
- Makeup bit
- Little dollop
- Little blob
- Little bit, as of cream
- Little bit of Vaseline
- Little bit of glue
- Little bit of blush
- Head-in-elbow-crook dance move
- Hair-cream dollop
- Hair cream smidgen
- Gently applied amount
- Gel amount
- Foundation amount
- Fad dance move of 2015
- Face-covering dance move
- Extra-small amount, as of lotion
- Delicately apply
- Dance move where you duck your head and stick out your arm
- Dance move that resembles sneeze hygiene
- Dance move that resembles covering a sneeze
- Dance move that demonstrates sneezing hygiene
- Dance move of the 2010s
- Dance move made illegal in Saudi Arabia
- Daintily use a napkin
- Concealer amount
- Celebrate a touchdown a la Cam Newton
- Cam Newton’s touchdown move
- Brylcreem application
- Brylcreem amount, in ads
- Blot away, as a tear
- Bit of skin cream
- Bit of shower gel
- Bit of lube
- Bit of hot sauce
- Bit of hair goop
- Bit of glue
- Bit of eye cream
- Artistic touch?
- Artistic touch-up
- Artistic touch
- Artist's touch-up
- Arm-raised dance move that some say looks like sneezing
- Apply, in a way
- Apply, as with a cotton swab
- Apply with care
- Apply with a tissue, say
- Apply with a swab, perhaps
- Apply with a swab, in a way
- Apply with a sponge, say
- Apply with a sponge
- Apply with a cotton swab, maybe
- Apply lightly, like makeup
- Apply gingerly, with "on"
- Apply gently, as hair gel
- Apply gently with the fingertips, as makeup
- Apply concealer, for example
- Application of mousse
- Amount of hair gel
- Amount of gel
- A little one'll do ya, said Brylcreem
- A little one'll do ya, according to Brylcreem
- A little gob
- A flatfish
- 2010s dance move involving dipping the head to the elbow
- "A little ___'ll do ya!" (Brylcreem slogan)
- "A little ___ will do ya"
- A tiny bit
- Apply lightly, with "on"
- Wee bit
- Small amount of hair gel
- Apply with a light touch
- Apply makeup gingerly
- Pat gently, as with makeup
- Schmear
- Apply gently, as makeup
- Finger-paint
- Tiny bit, as of cream
- Spot
- Smidgen of perfume
- Apply, as ointment
- Bit of ointment, e.g
- Small bit, as of cream
- Small application of perfume
- Bit of gel
- Small amount, as of hair cream
- Dollop
- Amount from a tube
- Bit of butter
- Flounder's kin
- Bit of hair cream, say
- Tiny bit, as of hair cream
- Touch lightly and quickly
- Little bit, as of color
- Fifth row
- Amount of hair cream
- Touch with a hanky, say
- Tiny application
- Lotion amount
- Bit of Vaseline
- Lightly apply
- Amount of cream
- Apply with a cotton ball, say
- Apply sparingly
- Light application
- Little application
- Little bit of gel
- Light touch, as with a paintbrush
- Apply gently, as cream
- Celebratory move popularized by Cam Newton
- A light touch or stroke
- A small quantity of something moist or soft
- Gentle touch
- Small portion
- Small quantity
- Small flounder
- Flatfish
- Soupçon
- Pinch to "do ya"
- Light stroke
- Gentle pat
- A flounder
- Apply mousse
- Smear
- Stroke lightly
- Peck or pat
- Smack chaser
- Expert in Exeter
- Small flatfish
- Flounder's relative
- European flatfish
- Smack follower
- Use a powder puff
- Expert touch
- Expert press writing
- Flipping rotten fish!
- Flatfish; fingerprint
- Fish; small amount
- Returned rotten fish
- Pat lightly with a napkin
- Tiny amount, as of hair cream
- Very small amount
- Slight amount of goop
- Soft touch
- Slight touch
- Strike lightly
- Little squirt
- Sponge gently
- Bit of hair gel
- Wee dollop
- Gentle stroke
- Just a bit
- Piddling amount
- Blot gently
- Bit of whipped cream
- A little one will "do ya," in old ads
- Bit of makeup
- Apply cream
- Just a touch
- Brylcreem amount?
- Tiny portion
- Apply with a swab, e.g
- Toothpaste amount
- Do some fingerpainting
- Bit of cream
- Small dollop of whipped cream
- Slight application
- Brylcreem unit?
- Apply paint
- Tap gently
- Small amount of lipstick
- Small amount from a tube
- Pat with a cotton ball
- Lightly touch, as with a handkerchief
- Gently pat with a napkin
- Dry gently, as tears
- Brylcreem bit
- Bit of paint
- Bit of balm
- Apply with short strokes
- Amount in a Brylcreem slogan
- Amount in a Brylcreem ad
- Wipe lightly
- Tiny dollop of paint
- Sponge lightly
- Small, moist amount
- Small glob
- Small bit of gel
- Small amount of moisturizer
- Put on paint, in a way
- Pat softly
- Pat or tap
- Paint with light strokes
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dab \Dab\, n. [Perh. so named from its quickness in diving beneath the sand. Cf. Dabchick.] (Zo["o]l.) A name given to several species of flounders, esp. to the European species, Pleuronectes limanda. The American rough dab is Hippoglossoides platessoides.
Dab \Dab\ (d[a^]b), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dabbed (d[a^]bd); p. pr. & vb. n. Dabbing.] [OE. dabben to strice; akin to OD. dabben to pinch, knead, fumble, dabble, and perh. to G. tappen to grope.]
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To strike or touch gently, as with a soft or moist substance; to tap; hence, to besmear with a dabber.
A sore should . . . be wiped . . . only by dabbing it over with fine lint.
--S. Sharp. To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust. ``To dab him in the neck.''
--Sir T. More.
Dab \Dab\, n.
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A gentle blow with the hand or some soft substance; a sudden blow or hit; a peck.
A scratch of her claw, a dab of her beak.
--Hawthorne. A small mass of anything soft or moist.
Dab \Dab\ (d[a^]b), n. [Perh. corrupted fr. adept.] A skillful hand; a dabster; an expert. [Colloq.]
One excels at a plan or the titlepage, another works
away at the body of the book, and the third is a dab at
an index.
--Goldsmith.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, dabben "to strike," of unknown origin, perhaps imitative. Modern sense of "strike with a slight, quick pressure" developed by mid-16c., influenced by French dauber (see daub). Related: Dabbed; dabbing. As a noun from c.1300, "heavy blow with a weapon." Dab hand is British slang, 1828, from dab "expert" (1690s), said to be school slang, of unknown origin, perhaps from dab in the "strike lightly" sense.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 adv. With a dab, or sudden contact. n. 1 A soft tap or blow; a blow or peck from a bird's beak; an aimed blow. 2 (context AAVE English) A soft, playful box#Etymology 3 given in greeting or approval. 3 A small amount, a blob of some soft or wet substance. 4 (context chiefly in the plural dated British English) fingerprint. 5 A small amount of http://en.wikipedi
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1 (context transitive English) To press lightly in a repetitive motion with a soft object without rubbing. 2 (context transitive English) To apply a substance in this way. 3 To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust. 4 To apply http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hash%20oil to a heated surface for the purpose of efficient combustion. File:Dabbing.JPG Etymology 2
n. One skilful or proficient; an expert; an adept. Etymology 3
n. 1 A small flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, especially (taxlink Limanda limanda species noshow=1)； a flounder. 2 (context US English) A sand dab, a small flatfish of genus (taxlink Citharichthys genus noshow=1).
WordNet
Wikipedia
Dąb is a district of Katowice in southern Poland.
Dąb may also refer to:
DAB or dab may refer to:
The Dab is a dance in which the dancer simultaneously drops the head while raising an arm and the elbow in a gesture that has been noted to resemble sneezing. As a Sports Illustrated article about the phenomenon described the Dab, “The dance is pretty simple; one leans in to their elbow like they’re sneezing."
Usage examples of "dab".
While I was examining this, I began to sense the presence once more, and this time as it grew I became aware of a smell, a sweet perfume akin to Atar of Roses - a scented water my own Mina would often dab at her swan-pale neck.
Julia relaxed slowly as Azar dabbed the perspiration from her forehead and murmured to her, touching her face tenderly.
Ever since the first dab of living substance was brewed up in the amino-acid-tainted soups of azoic oceans on our primordial Earth, and the first simple prototypes of the double-helix DNA molecules of heredity appeared, biological forms have been becoming more complex--learning, acquiring more know-how.
The barbie unscrewed the top of it and used her middle finger to smear dabs of brown onto her breasts, making stylized nipples.
She was lying on the couch dabbing calamine lotion on her legs and reading college catalogs.
But her son had been a man for a long time now, and those days of dabbing mosquito bites with calamine lotion and healing hurts with kisses were gone forever.
She handed him a sandwich, but then she dabbed a little mustard on one nipple and coyly asked if he wanted to taste it.
The dab of cyanoacrylate glue that spat from her tail stuck to the chassis of the van and hardened instantaneously.
A fit of wet, violent coughing derailed his explanation, and he dabbed at his sweaty brow with a well-worn handkerchief.
While Bulen gave his boots a much-needed blacking, Lan washed himself from head to toe at the washstand rather than waiting for a bathtub to be brought, and dabbed an ointment that Anya sent Esne for onto his welts, but he let the women dress him.
And smack dab in the middle of it was the wildest fae on any human continent, and by far the most dangerous.
The catch included also ling, sole, whiting, dab, gurnet, oysters, crabs, whelks, cat-fish, star-fish, and a large amount of ocean scrapings.
The sky was bright, dabs of white cloud pushed and buffeted across the blue expanse by a gusty, chill wind.
When he finished, Avallach dropped the tumbler back onto the tray, and Lile dabbed his chin with the cloth as one would a forgetful child.
The waiter offered us a tray with dabs of Liptauer cheese on small shapes of toast.