Comparative form of 'dauby': more sticky, smeared, or covered with a thick substance; more sloppy or crude in appearance.
From 'daub' plus comparative suffix '-er', with '-y' forming the base adjective. The root traces back through Old French to Latin 'dealbare'.
This word shows how English lets us turn almost any action into a quality—if something is wet, it's 'wetter,' and if something is dauby and sticky, it's 'daubier'—it's pure word-building logic!
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