putty
puh tee
- n a dough-like mixture of whiting and boiled linseed oil; used especially to patch woodwork or secure panes of glass
- v apply putty in order to fix or fill
putty the window sash
- Though in some ways this world is putty too, this time there's nothing silly about it.
- My boys went wild for the veal, meatball and pasta stoup, as she calls it, and, like her audience, were quickly softened to putty in her kitchen-confident hands, disarmed of their .
- Cans of lead putty currently on shelves in New Haven, Conn.