putty

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

putty [putty putties puttied puttying] BrE [ˈpʌti] NAmE [ˈpʌti] noun uncountable
a soft sticky substance that becomes hard when it is dry and that is used for fixing glass into window frames
•He looked very ill and his face was the colour of putty (= grey).
Idiom: ↑putty in somebody's hands

Word Origin:
mid 17th cent.: from French potée, literally ‘potful’, from pot ‘pot’.