daube

From French daube.

daube (plural daubes)

1. A stew of braised meat, usually beef.
   • a. 1969, John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces:

     “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/

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. first-person singular present indicative of dauber
2. third-person singular present indicative of dauber
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of dauber
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of dauber
5. second-person singular imperative of dauber

• “daube” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

daube (plural daubes)

1. (obsolete) stave (of a barrel)

• doga