a soft sticky substance that becomes hard when it is dry and that is used for fixing glass into window frames (窗用)油灰 He looked very ill and his face was the colour of putty (= grey). 他看上去病得很重,脸色苍白。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPutty is used before these nouns:- knife
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from French potée, literally ‘potful’, from pot ‘pot’.