stuff

  • 41stuff — 1. noun /stʌf/ a) Miscellaneous items; things. What is all that stuff on your bedroom floor? b) The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object. She was going out to buy some lengths of good woollen stuff for Louises winter… …

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  • 42stuff — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. cram, pack, jam, fill; pad, wad; plug, block; gormandize, gorge, overeat. See gluttony, expansion. n. fabric, cloth, material; nonsense; substance; rubbish. the stuff II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Material]… …

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  • 43stuff — noun 1》 matter, material, articles, or activities of a specified or indeterminate kind.     ↘informal alcoholic drink or drugs.     ↘(one s stuff) one s area of expertise. 2》 basic characteristics; substance: Healey was made of sterner stuff. 3》… …

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  • 44stuff — 1. noun 1) suede is tough stuff Syn: material, substance, fabric, cloth 2) first aid stuff Syn: items, articles, objects, goods; informal things, bits and pieces, odds and ends …

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  • 45stuff-up — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms stuff up : singular stuff up plural stuff ups Australian informal a bad mistake, or something that has been done very badly …

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  • 46stuff —  1. Word used widely in place of many nouns which the speaker cannot remember or identify.  2. bit of stuff Sexually attractive woman.  3. the hard stuff Spirits (usu. whisky). Money.  4. See hot stuff.  5. v. Copulate with.*  6. Hashish. Heroin …

    A concise dictionary of English slang

  • 47Stuff — Vor Stuff zäunet man nicht. – Graf, 84, 111. Es bestand an verschiedenen Orten die Bestimmung, dass jeder besäete Acker eingezäunt sein musste, jeder also im Dorfe so viel Umfriedungen zu machen hatte, als er besäete Aecker in der Feldmark des… …

    Deutsches Sprichwörter-Lexikon

  • 48stuff — stouff ou stuff n. f. (Luxembourg) Salle de séjour. stuff n. f. V. stouff …

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  • 49Stuff — Droge, Rauschgift, Rauschmittel, Suchtmittel; (salopp): Stoff; (Jargon): Dope, Hard Drug, Hard Stuff, Soft Drug. * * * Stuff 1.→Marihuana 2.→Rauschgift …

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  • 50stuff — [14] Stuff is ultimately the same word as stop. It comes via Old French estoffer and prehistoric Germanic *stopfōn, earlier *stoppōn (source of English stop), from late Latin stuppāre ‘plug, stop up’. This originally denoted literally ‘stop up a… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins