Blu-Tack

English

Blu-Tack

Etymology

From a brand name, from blue tack.

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

Noun

Blu-Tack (uncountable)

1. (British, New Zealand, Australia) A solid putty-like adhesive, originally blue in colour, used to secure items to walls and other surfaces.
   • 2024 January 10, Chris Gilson, “RAIL's famous five...”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 27:

     It was an April Fool hoax, of course. 31200 had been rigged up with a single lightweight wooden [name] plate (loosely held on by Blu Tack).

Translations

putty-like adhesive

• Afrikaans: wondergom, prestik
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 藍丁膠／蓝丁胶 (lándīngjiāo), 寶貼／宝贴 (bǎotiē), 泥膠／泥胶 (níjiāo)

• Finnish: sinitarra
• Icelandic: kennaratyggjó n
• Spanish: Blu-Tack m
• Swedish: häftmassa c, kladdmassa c, klet (sv) n, kludd (sv) n

See also

• mastic

 

Verb

Blu-Tack (third-person singular simple present Blu-Tacks, present participle Blu-Tacking, simple past and past participle Blu-Tacked)

1. (British, New Zealand, Australia) To fix with Blu-Tack.

   The power switch wasn't seated properly, and so I blu-tacked it into place.

Further reading

• Blu-Tack on Wikipedia.Wikipedia