n.
- matter, material, articles, or activities of a specified or indeterminate kind.
▸informal alcoholic drink or drugs.
▸
(one's stuff)
one's area of expertise.
- basic characteristics; substance:
Healey was made of sterner stuff.
- Brit. dated woollen fabric, especially as distinct from silk, cotton, and linen.
- N. Amer. (in sport) spin given to a ball.
- Brit. informal, dated nonsense; rubbish.
v.
- fill tightly with something.
▸force tightly into a receptacle or space.
▸fill out the skin of (a dead animal or bird) with material to restore the original shape and appearance.
▸push hastily into a space.
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(be stuffed up)
informal have one's nose blocked up with catarrh.
▸informal fill (oneself) with large amounts of food.
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[usu. in imper.]
Brit. informal used to express indifference or rejection.
- Brit. informal defeat heavily in sport.
- Brit. vulgar slang (of a man) have sex with.
- N. Amer. place bogus votes in (a ballot box).
Phrase
- get stuffed
[usu. in imper.]
Brit. informal said to express dismissal or contempt. - that's the stuff
Brit. informal that is good or what is needed.
Derivative
Etymology
ME: shortening of OFr. estoffe ‘material, furniture’, estoffer ‘equip, furnish’, from Gk stuphein ‘draw together’.