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Polyfilla

Polyfilla noun: a metaphorical filler to minimize or obscure defects.

Noun

Polyfilla (uncountable)

  1. (UK) A metaphorical filler to minimize or obscure defects.
    • He writes in well filled fourteeners, with individual words used not only vitally to convey the sense but also as a kind of metrical polyfilla.1984, Gerardus Antonius Maria Janssens, Flor Aarts, Studies in Seventeenth-century English Literature, History and Bibliography
    • Kierkegaard saw clearly that faith is not a kind of epistemic Polyfilla that closes the small cracks left by reason, but a mad leap across a chasm devoid of all reason.2013 May 6, Julian Bagginni, “I Still Love Kierkegaard”, in Aeon

Origin of Polyfilla

From the trade name of a brand of spackling paste.

Words formed from Polyfilla

Questions about Polyfilla

What does Polyfilla mean?
Polyfilla means a metaphorical filler to minimize or obscure defects.
What part of speech is Polyfilla?
Polyfilla is a noun.

Words near Polyfilla in the dictionary

  1. polyferredoxins
  2. polyfidelitous
  3. polyfidelity
  4. polyfilament
  5. polyfill
  6. Polyfilla
  7. polyfilled
  8. polyfilling
  9. polyfills
  10. polyflavonoid
  11. polyflavonoids

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