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English
Etymology
From the trade name of a brand of spackling paste.
Noun
Polyfilla (uncountable)
- (British) A metaphorical filler to minimize or obscure defects.
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.
2013 May 6, Julian Bagginni, “I Still Love Kierkegaard”, in 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.
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