nurdle
n.— «I put down a nurdle (a precise measurement, somewhere between “a little” and “a skoshe”) of the green stuff, make a little crater in it and put in some Testors liquid cement.» —“Re: Plastic Model Putty—is there a good one?” by Bob Buxbaum Usenet: rec.models.scale Dec. 20, 1996. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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