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stuff /stʌf /noun [mass noun]1Matter, material, articles, or activities of a specified or indeterminate kind that are being referred to, indicated, or implied: I prefer to buy stuff in sales we all offer to do stuff for each other green stuff in stagnant water the mud was horrible stuff a girl who’s good at the technical stuff all that running and swimming and stuff...- The fact that the New Statesman can't find anything more grown-up to publish than this sort of stuff is indicative of its sad decline.
- There was apparently a really big rain in his town and all sorts of horrible stuff ended up in the pipeline.
- A load of kids are reading stuff and hearing stuff which refers back to Vietnam, and there is a resurgence in interest in the works of Chomsky.
Synonyms material, fabric, cloth, textile; matter, substance, medium items, articles, objects, goods informal things, bits and pieces, bits and bobs, odds and ends British informal odds and sods, gubbins 1.1A person’s belongings, equipment, or baggage: he took his stuff and went...- Your stuff has proven it works with my equipment so I am going to need lots of it within the next six months.
- But this stuff is being purveyed by the Religious Affairs Department of the Saudi Armed Forces.
- And so, all Graham's stuff for the trip packed neatly into two soft cases, to bed.
Synonyms belongings, possessions, personal possessions, effects, property, goods, goods and chattels; paraphernalia, accoutrements, appurtenances, trappings informal gear, things, tackle, kit British informal clobber, gubbins 1.2British informal, dated Worthless or foolish ideas, speech, or writing; rubbish: [as exclamation]: stuff and nonsense!...- At first sight such an idea seems outrageous stuff and nonsense.
- The problem is, however, that to get to the point where we can afford all this stuff and nonsense, we have to work ridiculously long hours.
- The lectures were the usual old stuff and nonsense, but it's so easy to make new friends when you just bitch.
Synonyms rubbish, nonsense, twaddle, balderdash, claptrap, gibberish, drivel informal poppycock, tripe, bunk, piffle, bosh, bilge, hot air, hogwash, hooey, baloney, mumbo jumbo British informal cobblers, codswallop, tosh Scottish & Northern English informal havers Irish informal codology North American informal garbage, flapdoodle, blathers, wack, bushwa, applesauce informal, dated tommyrot, rot, bunkum vulgar slang bullshit, crap, bollocks, balls Australian/New Zealand vulgar slang bulldust 1.3 informal Drink or drugs: the islanders get fighting mad on the stuff ‘Are you doing stuff, Kevin?’ he asked...- I slowly went downhill and back on to the heavy stuff like heroin.
- If they allowed dope to be used, I could grow her stuff, she could smoke it, and her life would be improved.
- At first money wasn't a problem I had a good job, good house, I sold my house to the drug dealers so they could sell their stuff.
1.4 ( one's stuff) Things in which one is knowledgeable and experienced; one’s area of expertise: he knows his stuff and can really writeSynonyms facts, information, data, subject, discipline informal onions 2The basic constituents or characteristics of something or someone: Healey was made of sterner stuff such a trip was the stuff of his dreams...- We drive, chatting every once in awhile, listening to the radio, pretty basic road trip stuff.
- It's also possible that I could program some of the more basic stuff - no, that won't happen.
- It's very, very easy for me to eat when I'm at home because I like very, very basic stuff.
3British dated Woollen fabric, especially as distinct from silk, cotton, and linen: [as modifier]: her dark stuff gown...- Of course people have noticed before that Matisse posed his models in flimsy, filmy harem pants on divans and cushions covered with flowered or striped stuffs against fabric screens and curtains.
- His library was dukedom large enough, and here on the island he has, besides rich garments, linen stuffs and necessaries, volumes that he prizes above his dukedom.
- The earliest woven stuffs were made for use or ornament, before refinements in spinning and weaving permitted textiles malleable enough to clothe the body.
4North American (In sport) spin given to a ball to make it vary its course.I think Greinke's stuff will get better, it got better as last year went along....- His stuff was impressive in his short stint in Detroit, as well as his 26 innings in Arizona.
- He rarely hits the upper 80s on his fastball, so he relies on his off-speed stuff to get outs.
4.1 Baseball A pitcher’s ability to produce spin on a ball or control the speed of delivery of a ball.He says he hasn't changed anything in his delivery - he just isn't trusting his stuff....- Bernero has savvy and changes speeds, but hitters sometimes sit on his off-speed stuff.
- Ramirez struggles with his control at times but has much better stuff and is more durable than Reynolds.
verb [with object]1Fill (a receptacle or space) tightly with something: an old teapot stuffed full of cash figurative his head has been stuffed with myths and taboos...- But then these rooms are stuffed with things of beauty, as the deputy curator of the collection, Martin Clayton, enthusiastically points out.
- The two tea rooms were stuffed with damp holiday makers, all tucking into cake and cream and scones and cream and strawberry jam and cream.
- Samantha, 25, said: " The wallet was stuffed full of pictures, letters, keepsakes and prayer cards.
Synonyms fill, pack, pad, line, wad, upholster 1.1Force or cram (something) tightly into a receptacle or space: he stuffed a thick wad of notes into his jacket pocket...- As she rolled her clothes up tightly and stuffed them in securely, she tried to recall what it was that she missed the most.
- My hand was unexpectedly clutching the stone tightly as I stuffed the paper back in the bottle.
- Once inside the man quickly tied her wrists together behind her back and stuffed a thick cloth into her mouth and tied it tightly behind her head, gagging her.
Synonyms shove, thrust, push, ram, cram, squeeze, press, force, compress, jam, wedge; pack, crowd, stow, pile, stick 1.2 informal Hastily force (something) into a space: Sadie took the coin and stuffed it in her coat pocket...- He read it hastily before stuffing it in his pocket.
- Young and the others hastily stuffed a purifier into each nostril and inhaled some much needed fresh air.
- Hastily, she stuffed her feet into a pair of sneakers and ran downstairs to where her grandfather was waiting for her.
1.3Fill out the skin of (a dead animal) with material to restore the original shape and appearance: he took the bird to a taxidermist to be stuffed (as adjective stuffed) a stuffed parrot...- Several Irish talk show hosts have been filling the air waves with information about stuffing your dead pets.
- The dead elephant was stuffed and exhibited, and it stood in Vienna until Maximilian sent it to Munich.
- One thing unites the animals: they are all dead but stuffed by taxidermists at Edinburgh's Royal Museum on Chambers Street.
1.4Fill (the cavity of an item of food) with a savoury or sweet mixture, especially before cooking: chicken stuffed with mushrooms and breadcrumbs...- It may be eaten in the form of tamales, the dough stuffed with savoury or sweet mixtures and steamed in maize or banana leaves.
- But I fancied the savoury pancakes stuffed with mushrooms, tomatoes and onions, and covered in a creamy cheese sauce.
- The chicken breasts can be stuffed in advance and popped in the steamer when you get in from work.
1.5 informal Fill (oneself) with large amounts of food: he stuffed himself with Parisian chocolates...- Meanwhile, while Holly stuffed herself with food and downed the coffee, someone put their hands over her eyes.
- Imitating their elders on such occasions, they stuffed themselves with a lot of food and drink, and roared with merriment to the bemusement of all the diners around.
- For that few minutes, we were all silent, as we stuffed ourselves with the delicious food.
Synonyms fill, cram, gorge, overindulge, satiate; gobble, devour, wolf, guzzle informal pig, pig out, make a pig of oneself, stuff oneself to the gills Northern Irish informal gorb 1.6 ( be stuffed up) informal Have one’s nose blocked up with catarrh as a result of a cold: when I woke up that morning I was totally stuffed up and my throat was soreSynonyms block, stop, bung; congest, obstruct, choke 1.7 informal Fill (envelopes) with identical copies of printed matter: they spent the whole time in a back room stuffing envelopes...- Other employees stuffed 1,700 envelopes for the event on state time, the affidavit said.
- Zines needed to be physically copied, taken down to the local alternative music shop, or stuffed in envelopes and mailed.
- For now, all of his value can be typed onto an application and stuffed in a Manila envelope to be scanned in fifteen minutes by a member of the admissions department.
1.8North American Place bogus votes in (a ballot box).Although Democrats easily won the election by stuffing ballot boxes, they wanted revenge....- EU observers say they also saw incidents of Kagame's supporters tampering with voter lists and stuffing ballot boxes.
- As you can see, TSN's team came in fourth even without stuffing the ballot box and telling relatives to vote for our team.
2 [usually in imperative] British informal Used to express indifference towards or rejection of (something): stuff the diet! 3British informal Defeat heavily in sport: Town got stuffed every week 4British vulgar slang (Of a man) have sexual intercourse with (a woman). Phrasesget stuffed not give a stuff stuff it that's the stuff Derivativesstuffer noun [in combination]: a sausage-stuffer...- Instead of anything this interesting, we just get the same old boring, contrived, generic mailbox stuffers with the candidate's mugshot, political party, electorate name and supposed attributes hastily slapped together.
- Today, his company, the Wings of Autumn, has a reputation of being the finest animal stuffers in town.
- But most mornings were spent taking boxes of envelopes to and from the stuffers (as I affectionately referred to them) and making various deliveries to small businesses on the new industrial estates.
Phrasal verbsstuff up (or stuff something up) OriginMiddle English (denoting material for making clothes): shortening of Old French estoffe 'material, furniture', estoffer 'equip, furnish', from Greek stuphein 'draw together'. Stuff originally meant the material for making clothes. It is a shortening of Old French estoffe ‘material or furniture’, which is related to estoffer ‘to equip, furnish’, the source of the verb stuff. Do your stuff is first recorded in 1663 in the journal of George Fox, founder of the Quakers: ‘A while after, when the priest had done his stuff, they came to the friends again.’ Stuff and nonsense, first found in Tom Jones (1749) by Henry Fielding, is really ‘nonsense and nonsense’—stuff is used in the 16th-century sense ‘nonsense, rubbish’.
Rhymesbluff, buff, chough, chuff, cuff, duff, enough, fluff, gruff, guff, huff, luff, puff, rough, ruff, scruff, scuff, slough, snuff, Tough, tuff |