Polyfilla

Origin

From the trade name of a brand of spackling paste.

Full definition of Polyfilla

Noun

1. (British) A metaphorical filler to minimize or obscure defects.
• 2013, Julian Bagginni, I Still Love Kierkegaard (in Aeon magazine, May 6, 2013)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.