putty
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Etymology 1
Borrowed from French potée (“polishing powder", originally "the contents of a pot, potful”), from French pot (“pot”). More at English pot.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpʌti/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ʌti
Noun
putty (countable and uncountable, plural putties)
- A form of cement, made from linseed oil and whiting, used to fix panes of glass.
- Any of a range of similar substances.
- An oxide of tin, or of lead and tin, used in polishing glass, etc.
- A fine cement of lime only, used by plasterers.
- (golf, colloquial) A golf ball made of composition and not gutta-percha.
Derived terms
Translations
a form of cement
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Adjective
putty (not comparable)
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling putty.
Verb
putty (third-person singular simple present putties, present participle puttying, simple past and past participle puttied)
- (transitive) To fix or fill using putty.
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
putty (plural putties)
- Alternative form of puttee (“strip of cloth wound round the leg”).
- 1964 [1929], William Faulkner, Sartoris (The Collected Works of William Faulkner), London: Chatto & Windus, page 22:
- “He went to’ds de back, ma’am.” The negro opened the door and slid his legs, clad in army O.D. and a pair of linoleum putties, to the ground. “‘I’ll go git ’im.”’
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