spackle

See also: Spackle

English

WOTD – 6 August 2009

Etymology

From Spackle, originally a brand name, perhaps based on spachtel which is ultimately from Latin spatula.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈspæk.əl/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ækəl

Noun

spackle (countable and uncountable, plural spackles)

1. 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.
2. A plastic paste meant for filling cracks and holes in plaster.
3. 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

powder that when mixed with water forms a plastic paste

• Dutch: plamuur (nl) m
• Finnish: silote, pakkeli (fi)
• Swedish: spackelfärg c, spackel (sv) c

plastic paste for filling cracks and holes

• Bulgarian: кит (bg) m (kit)
• Finnish: silote, pakkeli (fi), tasoitemassa
• Norwegian: sparkel m, sparkelmasse (no) m
• Russian: шпатлёвка (ru) f (špatljóvka)
• Swedish: spackel (sv) c, spackelfärg c

Verb

spackle (third-person singular simple present spackles, present participle spackling, simple past and past participle spackled)

1. (transitive) To fill or repair with a plastic paste.
2. (intransitive) To fill cracks or holes with a spackle.
3. To fill gaps with something, as if spackling; to speckle

   The neighborhood has been spackled with coffee shops.

Translations

fill cracks or holes with a spackle

• Bulgarian: китвам (kitvam)
• Dutch: plamuren (nl)
• Finnish: silottaa, tasoittaa (fi), spaklata
• Norwegian: sparkle
• Swedish: spackla (sv)

Anagrams

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