to spackle

Examples

• All

• This room needed the windows scraped, that room needed another coat on the woodwork, and there was always another room that had to be scraped, sanded, spackled, taped, and painted.

  Fiction book (1997)

• I call that spackling, and I have come to realize that my job is really just to show up and spackle those cracks in.

  This Changes Everything (2019)

• I mean, we could spackle these walls with that.

  The Switch (2010)

• Then I'm going to pull this frame and I'm going to add some bondo and spackle and give it a coat of paint.

• The defensive linemen and linebackers each have a gap they fill, like spackling a hole in a wall.

  Blog text (17)

• The bathroom should have been wallpapered and updated by now; the nail holes in her walls needed to be spackled, and the rest of the apartment could use some touch-up painting as well.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Before painting the room, we need to spackle the holes in the wall.

• He carefully spackled the cracks in the ceiling to prepare for the new paint job.

Synonyms

S

to spack the drywall

vsto spackle

• US

9.4

To put filler on drywall seams and holes to make the surface smooth

is for filling holes and cracks before painting, not mainly for seam finishing

M

to mudding

vsto spackle

• Specialized

4.6

To cover something with mud or with a soft wall paste, for example on drywall

focuses on filling specific holes and cracks before painting rather than general surface covering

Antonyms

I

to ignore

∞ 1.0

Choose not to pay attention to someone or something

How Thoroughly

to resurface

4 3.9

to plaster

9 3.4

to spackle

• US

4 6.1

to patch

151 2.5

to dab

11 2.8

Surface Forms

Etymology