Definition

plaster (as gummy) or slime; (figuratively) frivolity

Etymology

from an unused root meaning to smear;

How the KJV renders it

• foolish things
• unsavoury
• untempered

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.