"Polyfilla" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the trade name of a brand of spackling paste.",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "polyfill"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1984, Gerardus Antonius Maria Janssens, Flor Aarts, Studies in Seventeenth-century English Literature, History and Bibliography",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 May 6, Julian Bagginni, “I Still Love Kierkegaard”, in Aeon",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "A metaphorical filler to minimize or obscure defects."
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        [
          "filler",
          "filler"
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          "defect",
          "defect"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British) A metaphorical filler to minimize or obscure defects."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Polyfilla"
}

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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "polyfill"
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  "etymology_text": "From the trade name of a brand of spackling paste.",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        "British English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English genericized trademarks",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "ref": "1984, Gerardus Antonius Maria Janssens, Flor Aarts, Studies in Seventeenth-century English Literature, History and Bibliography",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 May 6, Julian Bagginni, “I Still Love Kierkegaard”, in Aeon",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A metaphorical filler to minimize or obscure defects."
      ],
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          "defect",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British) A metaphorical filler to minimize or obscure defects."
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  "word": "Polyfilla"
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