Polyfilla

English Etymology From the trade name of a brand of spackling paste. Noun - en British A metaphorical filler to minimize or obscure defects. en 1984 Gerardus Antonius Maria Janssens; Flor Aarts Studies in Seventeenth-century English Literature, History and Bibliography 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. en May 6 2013 Julian Bagginni I Still Love Kierkegaard Aeon 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. Derived terms en polyfill en genericized trademarks