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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /stʌf/
• 韻: -ʌf

名詞

stuff (uncountable)

1. Miscellaneous items; things.

   What is all that stuff on your bedroom floor?

2. The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
3. A material for making clothing; a textile, often especially a woollen fabric.
   • 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 147:

     She was going out to buy some lengths of good woollen stuff for Louise's winter dresses.

4. Abstract substance or character.
   • c. 1599 William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar: Act 3, scene 2, 91–94

     When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; / Ambition should be made of sterner stuff

   • c. 1610 William Shakespeare, The Tempest Act 4, scene 1, 156–157

     We are such stuff / As dreams are made on

5. (informal) Used as placeholder for material of unknown type or name.

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

6. (slang, informal) Substitution for trivial details.

   I had to do some stuff.

7. (slang) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
   • 1947, William Burroughs, letter, 11 Mar 1947:

     For some idiotic reason the bureaucrats are more opposed to tea than to stuff.

関連する語

• stuff and nonsense
• stuffing
• -stuff

使用する際の注意点

The usage in the sense of textile is increasingly limited to specialized and dated in everday contexts.

動詞

to stuff (三人称単数 現在形 stuffs, 現在分詞 stuffing, 過去形および過去分詞形 stuffed)

1. To fill something up in a compressed manner.

   She stuffed the turkey for Thanksgiving using her secret stuffing recipe of diced bread, onions, and celery .

2. To be sated.

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

3. (英国用法, Australian, New Zealand) To be broken.

   It’s stuffed.

4. (vulgar, 英国用法, Australian, New Zealand) To sexually penetrate.

   Get stuffed you arsehole!

5. To be cut off in a race by having one's projected and committed racing line (trajectory) disturbed by an abrupt manoeuvre by a competitor.

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

同意語

• (to sexually penetrate): fuck, root, screw

派生語

• stuffing
• stuffy

参考

アナグラム

• tuffs
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