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)

1. A form of cement, made from linseed oil and whiting, used to fix panes of glass.
2. Any of a range of similar substances.
   1. An oxide of tin, or of lead and tin, used in polishing glass, etc.
   2. A fine cement of lime only, used by plasterers.
3. (golf, colloquial) A golf ball made of composition and not gutta-percha.

Derived terms

• glazier's putty
• nose putty
• putty in someone's fingers
• putty in someone's hands
• putty knife
• putty medal
• putty powder
• putty rubber
• silly putty
• wood putty

Translations

a form of cement

Bulgarian: маджун (bg) m (madžun) Catalan: massilla (ca) f Czech: kyt (cs) m Danish: kit n Dutch: kit (nl) m, stopverf (nl) c Estonian: kitt Finnish: kitti (fi) French: mastic (fr) m Georgian: წებო (c̣ebo), საფითხნი (sapitxni) German: Kitt (de) m, Fensterkitt m Hungarian: (as used by glaziers) gitt (hu), (as used by plasterers/decorators) glett, kitt (hu), (rare) tapasz (hu) Indonesian: dempul (id) Italian: stucco (it) m Japanese: パテ (ja) (pate) Norwegian: Bokmål: kitt n Nynorsk: kitt n Ottoman Turkish: معجون (maʿcun) Persian: زاماسکه (fa) (zâmâske) Plautdietsch: Kjitt n Polish: kit (pl) m Portuguese: massa (pt), massa de vidraceiro f Russian: зама́зка (ru) f (zamázka), шпатлёвка (ru) f (špatljóvka) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: кит m, гит m Roman: kit (sh) m, git (sh) m Spanish: masilla Swedish: kitt (sv) n, spackel (sv) n Turkish: macun (tr) Volapük: färmedastöf

any of a range of similar substances

Catalan: màstic m Finnish: silote Swedish: spackel (sv) n

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French: (please verify) mastic (fr)

Adjective

putty (not comparable)

1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling putty.

Verb

putty (third-person singular simple present putties, present participle puttying, simple past and past participle puttied)

1. (transitive) To fix or fill using putty.

Translations

to fix something using putty

Bulgarian: маджуносвам (madžunosvam) Catalan: massillar (ca) Finnish: kitata (fi) French: mastiquer (fr) German: kitten (de) Hungarian: betapaszt (hu), betöm (hu), (as used by glaziers) gittel (hu), begittel, (as used by plasterers/decorators) glettel (hu) Spanish: enmasillar (es)

Etymology 2

Noun

putty (plural putties)

1. 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.”’