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I noun1) (material or substance: What is that black oily stuff on the beach?; The doctor gave me some good stuff for removing warts; Show them what stuff you're made of! (= how brave, strong etc you are).) snov2) ((unimportant) matter, things, objects etc: We'll have to get rid of all this stuff when we move house.) navlaka3) (an old word for cloth.) blago•- that's the stuff! II verb1) (to pack or fill tightly, often hurriedly or untidily: His drawer was stuffed with papers; She stuffed the fridge with food; The children have been stuffing themselves with ice-cream.) nabasati (se)2) (to fill (eg a turkey, chicken etc) with stuffing before cooking.) napolniti3) (to fill the skin of (a dead animal or bird) to preserve the appearance it had when alive: They stuffed the golden eagle.) nagačiti•- stuffing- stuff up* * *I [stʌf]nounsnov; material, masa; surovina; predmet, stvar; gradivo, snov; hrana, pijača; (volneno) blago, sukno, tkanina; roba; familiarly lek, zdravilo, zdravila; nič vredna stvar, izmeček; stavbni les; nadev (za pečenko); (časnikarstvo) rokopis, (časopisni) članek; figuratively sposobnost, zmožnost, (dobra) lastnost; figuratively nesmisel, neumnost, bedastočathe stuff colloquially gotovina; tisto, kar je pravostuff and nonsense! — kakšen nesmisel!food stuff — živila, proviantgarden stuff, green stuff — zelenjava, povrtninahousehold stuff obsolete hišna posoda, pohištvohot stuff slang duhovit (energičen, spreten, pripraven) človek; opolzka knjiga ali gledališka igranone of your stuff! — nehaj že s svojimi neumnostmi!don't talk such a stuff! — ne govori takih bedastoč!to know one's stuff colloquially spoznati se (na svoje stvari)do your stuff! — pokaži, kaj znaš!that is the stuff to give him figuratively tako je treba z njim govoriti (ravnati)II [stʌf]transitive verbnabasati, natrpati, natlačiti ( into v), napolniti, napolniti (perutnino) z nadevom, nadevati; pitati (žival), pitati (koga) z lažmi itd.; tapecirati (pohištvo), nagačiti (žival); American slang napolniti volilno žaro s ponarejenimi glasovnicami; intransitive verb (na)basati se (z jedjo), preveč jesti; natlačiti se, nabasati se ( into v)stuffed shirt American slang naduta, domišljava, napihnjena osebato stuff o.s. — prenajesti seto stuff s.o. colloquially natvesti komu (kaj), zlagáti se komu
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stuffed shirt — stuffed shirts N COUNT (disapproval) If you describe someone, especially someone with an important position, as a stuffed shirt, you mean that they are extremely formal and old fashioned. [INFORMAL] He was so smart he charmed everybody from… … English dictionary
stuffed shirt — n informal someone who behaves in a very formal way and thinks that they are important … Dictionary of contemporary English
stuffed shirt — noun count INFORMAL a boring person who always behaves in a very correct way … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
stuffed shirt — stuffed′ shirt′ n. a pompous, self satisfied, and inflexible person … From formal English to slang
stuffed shirt — ► NOUN informal ▪ a conservative, pompous person … English terms dictionary
stuffed shirt — ☆ stuffed shirt n. Slang a pompous, pretentious person … English World dictionary
stuffed shirt — noun a bore who is extremely formal, pompous, and old fashioned • Usage Domain: ↑colloquialism • Hypernyms: ↑bore, ↑dullard * * * noun : a smug conceited usually pompous person with an inflexibly conservative or reactionary attitude nothing of… … Useful english dictionary
stuffed shirt — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms stuffed shirt : singular stuffed shirt plural stuffed shirts informal a boring person who always behaves in a very correct way … English dictionary
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stuffed shirt — n. a dull and stuffy person, usually a male. □ Mr. Wilson is a stuffed shirt, and people would tell him so if he didn’t have so much money. □ I don’t want to listen to that stuffed shirt anymore … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
stuffed shirt — {n. phr.} A pretentious bore; a pompous, empty person. * /I think that Howard is a terrible stuffed shirt with no sense of humor./ … Dictionary of American idioms