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ˈkitchen-stuff 1. Material used in cooking; requisites for the kitchen, esp. vegetables.
1606Sir G. Goosecappe iii ii. in Bullen O. Pl. (1884) III. 52 To sooth their pallats with choyce kitchin-stuff. c1710C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 299 Another Garden for Kitchen Stuff. 1744(title) Adam's Luxury and Eve's Cookery..Containing..Receipts for Dressing all sorts of Kitchen-Stuff. 2. The refuse or waste products of the kitchen; spec. dripping, kitchen-fee.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 904 All those that smell of grease or kitchingstuffe. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 49 They make them [candles] of all kind of kitchen stuffe, and other stinking baggage. 1697W. Dampier Voy. (1729) I. 537 When they want Oil, they make use of Kitchin-stuff. 1719D'Urfey Pills (1872) VI. 125 Come Maids bring out your Kitchen-stuff, Old Rags, or Women's Hair. 1836–9Dickens Sk. Boz v. (1849) 43/2 Shops for the purchase of rags, bones, old iron, and kitchen-stuff. b. fig. Of persons or things. contemptuous.
1637Heywood Royall King iii. Wks. 1874 VI. 46 Where be those kitchinstuffes here, shall we have no attendants? 1654Vilvain Theol. Treat. Suppl. 216 [They] scorn the book of Homilies as most cours contemptible Kitchin-stuf. 1754Warburton Ld. Bolingbroke's Philos. (R.), Would you easily believe his lordship could pride himself in cooking up this old kitchin-stuff? 3. attrib. and Comb.
1603Dekker Wonderfull Yeare F ij, All the way he went, was more greazie than a kitchin-stuffe-wifes basket. 1608Middleton Trick to Catch Old One iii. iv, Thou Kitchen-stuff-drab of beggary, roguery, &c. 1681W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. (1693) 789 A kitchin-stuff-wench. |