daube

From French daube.

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.”

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.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /dob/

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• Rhymes: -ob

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!

• daubière

daube

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

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