puttying

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.

hormones: a shitstorm. hanya27 2005

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.

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town Cory Doctorow

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.

Gigolo Edna Ferber 1926

So here and there she went, hammering, and screwing, and puttying, and painting, finding an outlet for much latent energy, and a use for her long repressed, although long suspected mechanical ability.

Cicely and Other Stories Sears Gallagher 1897

Affix the braces just after filling, using brads and puttying the holes with putty colored to match the filler.

Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I 1891

'Never mind about puttying up such little cracks as them!' he shouted.

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell 1890

Can't be worse, really, but 'puttying up' is down by the heels, and there hasn't been an old master from Flushing,

Felix O'Day Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876

The rest of my days will be spent in patching and painting and puttying and caulking my priceless possession and in looking the other way when an imploring argument or a damaging fact approaches.

What Is Man? and Other Essays Mark Twain 1872

If there be an infinite God, inspiration in some particular regard would be a patch -- it would be the puttying of a crack, the hiding of a defect

The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews Robert Green Ingersoll 1866

He had no mind to pay out money for what he could do himself; and many a wet afternoon did he and his hired man devote to the replacing of shingles, the nailing on of clapboards, to puttying, painting, and other matters of the same kind.

Janet's Love and Service 1859