"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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "A metaphorical filler to minimize or obscure defects."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "filler",
          "filler"
        ],
        [
          "defect",
          "defect"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British) A metaphorical filler to minimize or obscure defects."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Polyfilla"
}

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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "polyfill"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From the trade name of a brand of spackling paste.",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "British English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English genericized trademarks",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A metaphorical filler to minimize or obscure defects."
      ],
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        [
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          "defect",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British) A metaphorical filler to minimize or obscure defects."
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        "uncountable"
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  "word": "Polyfilla"
}