stuff : Idioms & Phrases

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Clear stuff

  • boards, planks, etc., free from knots.
Webster 1913

cold stuffed tomato

  • noun tomato cases filled with various salad mixtures and served cold
    cold stuffed tomato.
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create from raw stuff

  • verb make from scratch
    create from raw material.
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Doctor's stuff

  • physic, medicine. G. Eliot.
Webster 1913

Fine stuff

  • lime, or a mixture of lime, plaster, etc., used as material for the finishing coat in plastering.
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Free stuff

  • (Carp.), timber free from knots; clear stuff.
Webster 1913

Garden stuff

  • vegetables raised in a garden. Colloq.
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Gauge stuff

  • a stiff and compact plaster, used in making cornices, moldings, etc., by means of a templet.
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hot stuff

  • noun the quality of being attractive and exciting (especially sexually exciting)
    voluptuousness.
    • he thought she was really hot stuff
  • noun the quality of being popular
    • skiing is hot stuff in New Hampshire
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hot stuffed tomato

  • noun tomato cases filled with various mixtures and baked briefly
    hot stuffed tomato.
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Inch stuff

  • boards, etc., sawed one inch thick.
Webster 1913

Kitchen stuff

  • fat collected from pots and pans.
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oyster stuffing

  • noun stuffing made with oysters
    oyster dressing.
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real stuff

  • noun informal usage attributing authenticity
    real thing; real McCoy.
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Serving stuff

  • (Naut.), small lines for serving ropes.
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Small stuff

  • noun any light rope used on shipboard
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  • (Naut.), spun yarn, marline, and the smallest kinds of rope. R. H. Dana, Jr.
  • (Naut.), all kinds of small cordage. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
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sob stuff

  • noun a sentimental story (or drama) of personal distress; designed to arouse sympathy
    sob story.
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stuff and nonsense

  • noun senseless talk
    stuff; hooey; poppycock.
    • don't give me that stuff
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  • . (See def. 6 for stuff) balderdash, twaddle, nonsense, foolishness.
Webster 1913

Stuff gown

  • the distinctive garb of a junior barrister; hence, a junior barrister himself. See Silk gown, under Silk.
Webster 1913

stuff shot

  • noun a basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basket
    dunk; dunk shot.
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stuffed cabbage

  • noun parboiled head of cabbage scooped out and filled with a hash of chopped e.g. beef or ham and baked; served with tomato or cheese sauce
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stuffed derma

  • noun (Judaism) roasted fowl intestines with a seasoned filling of matzo meal and suet
    kishke.
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stuffed egg

  • noun halved hard-cooked egg with the yolk mashed with mayonnaise and seasonings and returned to the white
    deviled egg.
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stuffed grape leaves

  • noun well-seasoned rice (with nuts or currants or minced lamb) simmered or braised in stock
    dolmas.
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stuffed mushroom

  • noun mushrooms stuffed with any of numerous mixtures of e.g. meats or nuts or seafood or spinach
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stuffed peppers

  • noun parboiled green peppers stuffed usually with rice and meat and baked briefly
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stuffed shirt

  • noun a bore who is extremely formal, pompous, and old-fashioned
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stuffed tomato

  • noun tomato cases filled with various salad mixtures and served cold
    cold stuffed tomato.
  • noun tomato cases filled with various mixtures and baked briefly
    hot stuffed tomato.
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stuffing box

  • noun a small chamber in which packing is compressed around a reciprocating shaft or piston to form a seal
    packing box.
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stuffing nut

  • noun a nut used to tighten a stuffing box
    packing nut.
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Thick stuff

  • (Naut.), all plank that is more than four inches thick and less than twelve. J. Knowles.
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turkey stuffing

  • noun stuffing for turkey
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Washing stuff

  • any earthy deposit containing gold enough to pay for washing it; so called among gold miners.
Webster 1913