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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.
News & Articles

  • 4-wheeler accident near Nutty Putty cave leaves person injured
    Emergency crews are responding to a four-wheeler accident in the area of Nutty Putty cave on the west side of Utah Lake.
    June 14, 2013 - Provo Daily Herald
  • Abyrx,™ Inc. Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for New Absorbable Hemostatic Bone Putty (AHBP™)
    IRVINGTON, N.Y., June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Abyrx, Inc., a privately-held therapeutic device company, today announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration has cleared its new Absorbable Hemostatic Bone Putty (AHBP) for clinical use in the United States. AHBP is...
    June 12, 2013 - PR Newswire
  • Le Roy mother facing new criminal charges, accused of burglary
    A Le Roy woman, already facing a pot growing charge, has been arrested again on an unrelated burglary charge. Sara E. Schimley, 23, is accused of unlawfully entering or remaining in the apartment of an acquaintance between April 1 and May 24 and brandishing a crowbar and putty knife. She was arrested by Le Roy PD on charges of first degree burglary, a Class B felony, and criminal possession of a ...
    June 12, 2013 - The Batavian
Quotes

  • Jimmy Kimmel in Access Hollywood
    It's part Sylvester the Cat, it's part Curly from the Three Stooges and part Scrappy Doo,Jimmy explained of how he does his Jay impression. "And if you have silly putty at home to make yourself a nice big Dudley Do-Right chin, that works,...
  • Richard Stallman in Motley Fool
    If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenseless,Stallman told the Guardian. "You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software."
  • Chet Lemon in Chicago Tribune
    The biggest investments we have are our kids,said Lemon, who added Orta will become involved in an AAU program in Chicago. "They're like putty. You ought to see these kids when we work with them at ages 9 to 12."

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