Word Finder - stuffs

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Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.

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What is all that stuff on your bedroom floor?  He didn't want his pockets to bulge so he was walking around with all his stuff in his hands.

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Unspecified things or matters.

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I had to do some stuff.

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The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.

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• matter

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A material for making clothing; any woven textile, but especially a woollen fabric.

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Boards used for building.

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Abstract substance or character.

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Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.

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Can I have some of that stuff on my ice-cream sundae?

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• doodad
• thingamabob

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Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.

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• dope
• gear

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Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.

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A medicine or mixture; a potion.

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Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.

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• garbage
• rubbish

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A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.

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Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.

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Money.

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To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.

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I'm going to stuff this pillow with feathers.

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To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.

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He stuffed his clothes into the closet and shut the door.

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To fill with seasoning.

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She stuffed the turkey for Thanksgiving using her secret recipe.

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To load goods into (a container) for transport.

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(used in the passive) To sate.

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I’m stuffed after having eaten all that turkey, mashed potatoes and delicious stuffing.

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(pronominal) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.

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She sits on the sofa all day, watching TV and stuffing herself with cream buns.

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• feed one's face
• fill one's face
• stuff one's face

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To break; to destroy.

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He skidded off the road and totally stuffed his brand new car.

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To sexually penetrate.

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His wife came home early and found him on the couch stuffing the maid.

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• fuck
• root
• screw

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(mildly vulgar, often imperative) Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it.

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Stuff your stupid rules, I'll do what I like.

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To heavily defeat or get the better of.

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Mudchester Rovers were stuffed 7-0 in the semi-final.

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To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.

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I got stuffed by that guy on the supermoto going into that turn, almost causing us to crash.

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To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.

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To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.

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To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.

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To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.

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To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.

According to the decisions of the Congregation of Rites chasubles must not be of linen, cotton or woollen stuffs, but of silk; though a mixture of wool (or linen and cotton) and silk is allowed if the silk completely cover the other material on the outer side; spun glass thread, as a substitute for gold or silver thread, is also forbidden, owing to the possible danger to the priest's health through broken fragments falling into the chalice.

An octroi duty of 9% ad valorem formerly levied on all food stuffs entering the city was abolished in 1903.

Drawers of cedar or chips of the wood are now employed to protect furs and woollen stuffs from injury by moths.

New industries are those of tapestry, brocades, imitation of ancient stuffs, cloth of silver and gold, and Venetian laces.

The only industries are carpetweaving and the manufacture of cotton and silk stuffs.

The most important of these trades was the manufacture and dyeing of delicate woollen stuffs and carpets.

Her woven and embroidered stuffs have always been beautiful; but in former times few pieces of size and splendour were produced, if we except the curtains used for draping festival cars and the hangings of temples.

The principal manufactures are builders' hardware, locks and keys (the works of the Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company are here), woollen goods, dye stuffs, &c. The township of Stamford, known until 1642 by the Indian name of Rippowam, was settled in 1641 by twenty-nine persons who for religious reasons seceded from the Wethersfield church and joined the colony of New Haven.

There are manufactures of light woollen stuffs and a trade in corn, cattle and the produce of domestic industries.

Glass and coarse linen and woollen stuffs are manufactured; and there are valuable stone quarries in the neighbourhood.

Coarse cotton stuffs, chiefly of the kind called Kerbaz, used in their natural color, or dyed blue with indigo, are manufactured in all districts but not exported; cottons, called Kalamkar, which are made in Manchester and block-printed in colors at Isfahan and Kumishah, find their way to foreign markets, principally Russian.

The principal imports into Persia in approximate order of value are cottons, sugar, tea, woollens, cotton yarn, petroleum, stuffs of wool and cotton mixed, wool, hardware, ironmongery, matches, iron and steel, dyes, rice, spices and glass-wdre.

Neuss produces oil and meal, and also manufactures woollen stuffs, chemicals and paper, bricks and iron-ware.

The imports are French wines, spirits and liqueurs; silk and cotton stuffs, tobacco, hardware, glass, earthenware, clothing, preserved meat, fish, and vegetables, maize, flour, hay, bran, oils and cattle.

There is an important trade in agricultural products and live stock, as well as manufactures of woollen stuffs, leather, gunpowder, chemicals and porcelain.

The chief imports are textiles, food stuffs, wines and whisky, timber, hardware and machinery.

Outside Bangalore city there is a woollen mill, which turns out blankets, cloth for greatcoats, and woollen stuffs.

The chief manufactures are machinery, toys, woollen, cotton, and half-silk stuffs, embroideries, earthenware, tobacco, cutlery and playing cards.

But it is pointed out in the report that while the returns as regards farm produce, food stuffs, and raw materials may be considered approximately complete, the information as to manufactured goods-especially of the more valuable grades-is rough and inadequate.

The leading branch of industry is linen and damask weaving; but woollen stuffs, trimmings, &c., are also produced in the factories of the town, and in the surrounding weaving; villages, sixty-six of which, with 113,455 (1900) inhabitants,, are included in the municipal jurisdiction.

In the bazaar, which lies between the chief mosque and the sacred pool, and contains several streets, are displayed not only the native woollen stuffs, pottery and silver work, but also a considerable variety of European goods, especially cloth stuffs.

The principal manufactures are fine cotton stuffs and yellow leather.

But it's got infrared, and that helps a lot when i wana exchange stuffs between my cell n my sis's one.

Because of the shortage of animal feeding stuffs, stock activities were severely curtailed, and most tenants were forced to take temporary employment.

Cotton stuffs, calicoes and grey linen are among the goods most in demand; they are exported to the neighbouring coast of Anatolia, between Budrum and Adalia, and thence conveyed into the interior.

Afterwards she vivisects it, stuffs it, and adds it to her collection of heroes for novels."

In addition to being the principal emporium for the Austrian traffic on the Elbe, Tetschen has a considerable industry, its products comprising chemicals, oil, soap, cotton stuffs, plaster of Paris, glazed and coloured paper, cellulose, beer, flour and preserved fish.

Instead of the present boat, with its heavy black cabin and absence of colouring, the older forms had an awning of rich stuffs or gold embroideries, supported on a light arched framework open at both ends; this is the gondola still seen in Carpaccio's and Gentile Bellini's pictures (c. 150o).

Its damasks and other silk stuffs with patterns of extraordinary beauty surpassed in variety and splendour those of the other chief centres of silk-weaving, such as Florence and Genoa.

In addition to the native stuffs, an immense quantity of costly Oriental carpets, wall-hangings and other textiles was imported into Venice, partly for its own use, and partly for export throughout western Europe.

An active trade is carried on with Austria, especially through the Isakovets and Gusyatin custom-houses, corn, cattle, horses, skins, wool, linseed and hemp seed being exported, in exchange for wooden wares, linen, woollen stuffs, cotton, glass and agricultural implements.

The industry includes sugarrefining, brewing, the manufacture of cotton and woollen stuffs, leather goods and agricultural implements.

These facts indicate that we have here an agricultural product the market price of which is still far below its value as compared, on the basis of its chemical composition, either with other feeding stuffs or with other fertilizers.

The use of Manchester prints and other European goods is fairly general; and the women, who make a fine native cloth from hemp, introduce coloured threads from the foreign stuffs, so as to produce ornamental devices.

In the upper rooms is placed a large collection of Milanese and central Italian ceramics, stuffs, furniture, bronzes, ivories, enamels, glass and historical relics; together with a picture gallery containing works by Vincenzo Foppa, Gianpietrino, Boltraffio, Crivelli, Pordenone, Morone, Cariani, Correggio, Antonello da Messina, Tiepolo, Guardi, Potter, Van Dyck and Ribeira.

The chief industries are flax-spinning, rope-making, sugar refining, book printing, wool combing and dyeing, and it also manufactures beer, tobacco and cigars, cotton and woollen stuffs, furniture, organs and pianos; besides which there are saw, oil and grain mills, machine works, and numerous goldsmiths and silversmiths.

The dress of the Berbers was formerly made of home-woven cloth, and the manufacture of woollen stuffs has always been.

Unlike the Spartiates they might, and did, possess gold and silver and the iron and steel wares from the mines on Mt Taygetus, the shoes and woollen stuffs of Amyclae, and the import and export trade of Laconia and Messenia probably enabled some at least of them to live in an ease and comfort unknown to their Spartan lords.

The goods mostly dealt in are cotton, woollen, linen and silk stuffs (35 to 38% of the whole), iron and iron wares, furs and skins, pottery, salt, corn, fish, wine and all kinds of manufactured goods.

The same holds good with regard to all other stuffs, the prices of wool (provisionally established at the earlier fairs of south-western Russia) being ultimately settled at Nizhniy, as well as those of raw silk.

During the 18th century it became noted for the manufacture of worsted yarn and woollen stuffs.

Of the above-mentioned articles, carpets, shawls, woollen and cotton fabrics and silk stuffs are the more important.

The transformation of Italy from a purely agricultural into a largely industrial country is shown by the circumstance that trade in raw stuffs, semimanufactured and manufactured materials, now preponderates over that in alimentary products and wholly-manufactured articles, both the importation of raw materials and the exportation of manufactured articles having increased.

This is a great way to recycle food stuffs and garden waste.

Some food stuffs are actually toxic to our pets, while others may simply cause mild digestive disturbances.

Its industries include manufactures of cotton stuffs, alcohol and soap.

The long hair is shorn every summer, and woven into a variety of stuffs used by the Arab for clothing himself and his family, and covering his tent.

While importation of raw cotton increases importations of cotton thread and of cotton stuffs have rapidly decreased.

In comparative valuations of feeding stuffs it has been found that cotton seed meal exceeds corn meal by 62%, wheat by 67%, and raw cotton seed by 26%.

The extant inventories of spoil carried off by the ancient conquerors include a variety of utensils and stuffs.