spackle
See also: Spackle
English edit
Etymology edit
From Spackle, originally a brand name, perhaps based on spachtel which is ultimately from Latin spatula.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
spackle (countable and uncountable, plural spackles)
- Any powder (originally containing gypsum plaster and glue) that when mixed with water forms a plastic paste, which is used to fill cracks and holes in plaster.
- A plastic paste meant for filling cracks and holes in plaster.
- A paste-like substance that fills a gap.
- 2018 August 8, Helen Rosner, “It’s Time to Admit That Iceberg Is a Superior Lettuce”, in New Yorker[1]:
- a spackle of guacamole inside a taco shell
Translations edit
powder that when mixed with water forms a plastic paste
plastic paste for filling cracks and holes
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Verb edit
spackle (third-person singular simple present spackles, present participle spackling, simple past and past participle spackled)
- (transitive) To fill or repair with a plastic paste.
- (intransitive) To fill cracks or holes with a spackle.
- To fill gaps with something, as if spackling; to speckle
- The neighborhood has been spackled with coffee shops.
Translations edit
fill cracks or holes with a spackle