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the dough that holds glass to the world, soft enough to take any shape, dumb enough to need it
means A soft, malleable paste — traditionally linseed oil and chalk — used to seal glass into window frames or fill gaps, hardening as it dries.
from From the French 'potée,' meaning the contents of a pot — originally a fine polishing powder made in a crucible. The word itself traces back to 'pot,' so putty is, quite literally, pot-stuff: whatever paste came out of the potter's vessel, later narrowing to the gluey window-sealer we know today.
- silly putty
- Born from a failed WWII rubber experiment
- bounces too
- Stretches slow, shatters when hit hard
- space proof
- Apollo 8 crew used it to anchor tools
- lead legacy
- Old window putty made from linseed and chalk
- copies print
- Lifts ink straight off newspaper pages
putty knife — tool with flat blade used by glaziers and painters since the 18th century
silly putty — toy made by crayola, first sold in 1950, bounces and stretches
putty tyers — small bird species found in australia and southeast asia