单词 | stuff |
释义 | stuff I. 1. a. obsolete b. < were throwing broadsides at him … and stuff was going past him from both sides and killing — Ira Wolfert > < our own stuff was pouring back on them, and the power of the weapons was impressive — Fred Majdalany > c. obsolete d. < my stuff is all unpacked — Joseph Dever > e. < he is out for the stuff, and when he gets it he salts it away — P.G.Wodehouse > < is a moneyed writer burdened with even more of the stuff through inheritance — J.S.Sandoe > 2. a. < got all the stuff ready for building his house > b. < well furred inside with clear half-inch pine stuff — Emily Holt > c. d. e. f. 3. chiefly Scot & Irish 4. a. < some contemporary … material, and some stuff on the early history of toleration — H.J.Laski > < most writers can't cut their own stuff — Claire Callahan > — often used disparagingly < seems to be all the same — the old picaresque stuff — Arnold Bennett > b. < turns in good stuff from his beat > c. < novels are so full of nonsense and stuff — Jane Austen > < there is so much vulgar, trivial stuff on the air — D.W.Brogan > < mechanized organs of public opinion … are feeding us the same old stuff — Norman Woelfel > 5. a. < investigating the age of the universe and the creation of the stuff of which it is made — George Gamow > < decided that hydrogen was the primordial stuff of the universe — Waldemar Kaempffert > < volcanic rock is curious stuff > b. (1) (2) < that stuff's too strong on an empty stomach — C.S.Barry > (3) < mentioned to me that if I needed any weed or stuff to let her know — J.B.Martin > < you've been pushing the stuff — Wenzell Brown > (4) < brings the stuff in by freight car > < when the stuff didn't move, advertised the lines widely — Susan Strom > (5) < plutonium … was the stuff of the early atom bombs — Bertram Mycock > 6. a. < tendencies that are part of the very stuff of warfare — Tom Wintringham > < the stuff of greatness > < the stuff of tradition > < the stuff of life > b. < exhibits the stuff of manhood > < was not the stuff of which the revolutionary is made — Liam O'Flaherty > < must not expect to find in ordinary men the stuff of martyrs — Walter Lippmann > < she was of sterner stuff now — C.S.Forester > < proves that heroes are not made of pretty stuff — Frederic Morton > c. < their adventures are real and make the stuff of a stirring novel — H.U.Ribalow > < contained all the stuff of opera and was dramatically well-pointed — Norman Demuth > < slick work, but … he doesn't get down to the real stuff — Arnold Bennett > d. < philosophical physics … describes the stuff as a mathematical probability — W.L.Sullivan > < the procession of presidents and wars in … history is dull stuff indeed if presented in a vacuum — W.R.Steckel > < learning about the heavens from Ptolemy and his Arab commentators — real stuff at last — R.W.Southern > < this is primer stuff today to … meteorologists — Carey Longmire > 7. a. < rough stuff isn't tolerated — Bill Wolf > < no funny stuff now — Carl Jonas > < disturbing the peace, stuff like that — R.O.Bowen > < imagine a player getting away with that stuff today — Ted Williams > b. < struck us as a lad who knew his stuff — who could handle affairs of state or breeze through a … luncheon with equal aplomb — New Republic > < with the plane's crew doing its stuff dodging the fireworks — T.B.Bruff > c. < that's the stuff, don't give up > 8. < beds down … on the outside edge of the herd away from the horned stuff — R.F.Adams > < box stalls are necessary for … young stuff — Producing Farm Livestock > 9. a. < no difference how hard you hit the ball or how much stuff you put on it in the way of spin … unless you have accuracy — J.D.Budge > b. < the greatest pitcher of my time … had tremendous stuff — Ted Williams > < has a wide assortment of curves, sliders, and slow stuff — Lou Boudreau > II. transitive verb 1. obsolete a. b. c. 2. a. (1) < had to … stuff the jar — Ida Pruitt > — usually used with with < bags stuffed with papers — Van Wyck Brooks > < things you have to stuff your pockets with — Richard Joseph > (2) < their fingers stiff from stuffing and addressing envelopes — George Sklar > < stuffed and addressed the invitations — Carl Jonas > b. < got out the coffeepot … and before he could say a number she was stuffing him — Arthur Miller > < stuffing ourselves with cake and sandwiches — Alice F. Webb > < beef calves … which he stuffs for months with corn silage — John Bird > < stuff a cold and starve a fever > c. < used to stuff veal with bread crumbs and butter and sage … and onion — Margaret A. Barnes > d. < spent the morning stuffing the mattresses > < made of leather and stuffed with shoddy and cotton waste — American Guide Series: Connecticut > e. f. < hopped aboard … the already stuffed rear of the bus — Eula Long > < the church was stuffed full — R.C.Wood > g. < stuffed the keyhole to shut out prying eyes — American Guide Series: Connecticut > < stuffs woodchuck holes with rocks and dirt > < stuffing the wound with cotton > h. < lived in attic rooms stuffed with fantastic objects and furniture — Virginia D. Dawson & Betty D. Wilson > 3. a. < those whose heads are stuffed with facts — A.J.P.Taylor > < has a mind stuffed with ideas, hungry for argument — Virginia Woolf > — often used disparagingly < stuffs the people with lies that gag an honest man — Kenneth Roberts > < stuffed right up to the ears with his own slogans — David Driscoll > b. (1) < the book is … stuffed with delectable stories — Mark Van Doren > — often used disparagingly < tracts stuffed with a sodden morality — V.L.Parrington > < the appearance of a travelogue stuffed with melodrama — Time > (2) < scanty material, stuffed out with appreciation and conjecture — T.S.Eliot > < stuffed out their pages with platitudes — Virginia Woolf > 4. < sounded stuffed up … had been crying again — J.H.Reese > < his throat got stuffed — Liam O'Flaherty > 5. a. < secret documents stuffed under his shirt — Bernard Kalb > — usually used with into < got her stuffed into the closet — Robert Murphy > < stuff the greenbacks into my wallet — H.A.Overstreet > b. < stuffed it deep down in his mind — Richard Llewellyn > < knowledge … can never be knowledge that is stuffed in — H.A.Overstreet > < have stuffed too many of the facts … into my intellectuals — L.P.Smith > < any set mold into which the material has to be stuffed — Carlos Lynes > < stuffing … any preoccupation with her concerns out of sight — Helen Howe > 6. < the leather goods are stuffed with a mixture of hot oil and tallow, or fat liquored — New Zealand Journal of Agric. > 7. < another type of corrupt practice is stuffing the ballot boxes — D.D.McKean > intransitive verb < had finished stuffing in the dining room — H.A.Chippendale > Synonyms: see pack III. obsolete IV. V. 1. 2. — used in the imperative to express contempt < if they didn't like it, stuff 'em — Eric Clapton > — often used in the phrases stuff it and get stuffed 3. |
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