释义 |
stuff /stuf/ noun- Matter
- Substance
- Essence
- Material
- A preparation used or commodity dealt in in some particular industry or trade
- Garden produce
- Cloth, esp woollen
- A medicinal mixture
- Goods
- Luggage
- Provision
- Furniture
- Money
- Literary or journalistic copy
- Liquor (good stuff often whisky)
- A broad category or collection of indeterminate or unspecified things (informal)
- Rubbish
- Nonsense
- Stuffing, filling (obsolete)
- Indecent matter (obsolete)
adjective (archaic)Woollen transitive verb- To garrison (obsolete)
- To store, furnish (Shakespeare)
- To provision (obsolete)
- To line
- To be a filling for
- To fill very full
- To thrust in
- To crowd
- To cram
- To obstruct, clog
- To cause to bulge out by filling
- To fill (eg a fowl) with seasoning
- To fill the skin of (an animal) so as to reproduce the living form
- To hoax (slang)
- (of a man) to have sexual intercourse with (vulgar)
- To fill (envelopes) with copies of printed material, esp promotional leaflets
- To load (a freight container)
- (in electronics manufacturing, etc) to assemble the internal components of a machine in its external casing
- To defeat very convincingly (slang)
intransitive verb- To feed gluttonously
- To practise taxidermy
ORIGIN: OFr estoffe stuff, from estoffer to furnish, equip, from Gmc stopfōn, earlier stoppōn, from LL stuppāre to plug, stop up, from L stuppa, from Gr styppē coarse fibres, tow stuffed adjective - Provisioned
- Well-stored
- Filled
- Filled out with stuffing
- Clogged in nose or throat, etc (often with up)
- Utterly defeated (slang)
stuffˈer noun - A person or thing that stuffs
- A person who conceals illegal substances, esp drugs, in a body passage such as the rectum or vagina (slang)
stuffˈily adverb stuffˈiness noun stuffˈing noun - That which is used to stuff or fill anything, straw, sawdust, feathers, hair, etc
- Savoury ingredients put into meat, poultry, etc in cooking
stuffˈy adjective - Badly ventilated, musty
- Stifling
- Stout, sturdy (Scot)
- Stodgy (slang)
- Strait-laced
- Sulky (US)
- (of a nose) blocked up with mucus, etc
stuffed shirt noun A pompous, unbendingly correct person, esp if of little real importance stuff gown noun A gown of stuff, not silk, esp that of a junior barrister stuffing box noun A device for preventing leakage of gases or liquids along a reciprocating rod or rotating shaft, consisting of a ring-shaped chamber packed to provide a pressure-tight seal and stuff (informal) And that sort of thing or rubbish bit of stuff (offensive sl) A girl or woman considered sexually do one's stuff To do what is expected of one get stuffed! (vulgar slang) An interjection expressing anger, derision, contemptuous dismissal, etc hot stuff (informal) Denoting a very attractive, effective, etc person or thing knock the stuffing out of To reduce (an opponent) to helplessness know one's stuff To have a thorough knowledge of the field in which one is concerned stuff it (or them, you, etc) (slang) An interjection expressing disgust, scorn, frustration, etc stuff up (informal) To make a mess of things that's the stuff! Excellent! the hard stuff Strongly alcoholic drink, esp whisky |