Definition of "puttying" []

• Present participle of putty. (verb)

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• "He's up on a ladder, scraping and puttying and wilting from the heat and doing all he can humanly do to accommodate my urgent 'nesting' demands."
• "He tried puttying over the gouges in the flooring that he'd seen the day he took possession, but the putty seemed like a lie to him, less honest than the gouged-out boards were, and so he scooped the putty out and sanded the grooves until they were as smooth as the wood around them."
• "His half day off was invariably spent tinkering about the stuffy little flat -- painting, nailing up shelves, mending a broken window shade, puttying a window, playing with his pasty little boy, aged sixteen months, and his pasty little girl, aged three years."