daube

See also: daubé

English

Etymology

From French daube.

Noun

daube (countable and uncountable, plural daubes)

1. A stew of braised meat, usually beef.
   • 1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN:

     “Christ, I tell you true, Irene, that child won't listen to nobody! I'm trying to cook her some spaghettis and daube, and she keeps on playing in my pot.”

French

Etymology

Borrowed from obsolete Italian dobba (“marinade”), perhaps from Catalan adobar (“to marinate”). The Italian word is no longer in current use but still found in Sicilian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dob/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ob

Noun

daube f (plural daubes)

1. stew, casserole; daube
2. (slang) crap; crappiness (something of low quality)

   C’est trop de la daube ce film! ― This film definitively sucks!

Related terms

• daubière

Verb

daube

1. inflection of dauber:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “daube”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.