Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who putties; one who fills up or cements with putty, as a glazier.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who putties; a glazier.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective comparative form of putty: more putty
  • noun One who putties; a glazier.

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Examples

  • Marse Tommy ain't a bit puttier -- not a single bit. "

    Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955

  • They looked like your'n -- only they wuz puttier and bluer. "

    The Foolish Virgin 1915

  • And thar ain't a puttier girl in all this here section, although she hain't got as many clothes as she ought to have, a goin 'a way off on a bridal tower. "

    The Starbucks Opie Percival Read 1895

  • Marse Tommy ain't a bit puttier -- not a single bit. "

    The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson 1893

  • "Oh! you are puttier than ever, Miss Euly!" said she, laughing and crying in the same breath, "and just as good -- better you couldn't be.

    The Planter's Northern Bride 1854

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