different between purty vs putty

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)ti

Adjective

purty (comparative purtier, superlative purtiest)

1. (informal) Pronunciation spelling of pretty.

Adverb

purty (not comparable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of pretty.
   • 2004, Randall Williams, Weren't No Good Times: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Alabama, John F. Blair, Publisher ?ISBN, page 114

     They treated us purty good but we had to work hard.

   • 1988, Herbert M. Sutherland, Tall Tales of the Devil's Apron, The Overmountain Press ?ISBN, page 97

     Wall, be that as it may, ol' Hosshead was a purty good citizen in his day, an' he shore did make Juneybell toe the mark.

Anagrams

• putry

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French potée (“polishing powder", originally "the contents of a pot, potful”), from French pot (“pot”). More at English pot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?ti/
• Rhymes: -?ti

Noun

putty (countable and uncountable, plural putties)

1. A form of cement, made from linseed oil and whiting, used to fix panes of glass.
2. Any of a range of similar substances.
   1. An oxide of tin, or of lead and tin, used in polishing glass, etc.
   2. A fine cement of lime only, used by plasterers.
3. (golf, colloquial) A golf ball made of composition and not gutta-percha.

Derived terms

• putty in someone's hands

Translations

Adjective

putty (not comparable)

1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling putty.

Verb

putty (third-person singular simple present putties, present participle puttying, simple past and past participle puttied)

1. (transitive) To fix or fill using putty.

Translations

Etymology 2

Adjective

putty (comparative puttier, superlative puttiest)

1. (pronunciation spelling) pretty; purdy

Etymology 3

Noun

putty (plural putties)

1. Alternative form of puttee