stuff

I noun

1) (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).) snov

2) ((unimportant) matter, things, objects etc: We'll have to get rid of all this stuff when we move house.) navlaka

3) (an old word for cloth.) blago

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- know one's stuff

- that's the stuff! II verb

1) (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.) napolniti

3) (to fill the skin of (a dead animal or bird) to preserve the appearance it had when alive: They stuffed the golden eagle.) nagačiti

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- stuffing

- stuff up

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I [stʌf]

noun

snov; 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, bedastoča

the stuff colloquially gotovina; tisto, kar je pravo

stuff and nonsense! — kakšen nesmisel!

doctor's stuff — zdravilo

food stuff — živila, proviant

garden stuff, green stuff — zelenjava, povrtnina

household stuff obsolete hišna posoda, pohištvo

inch stuff — eno colo debele deske

thick stuff — nad štiri cole debele deske

hot stuff slang duhovit (energičen, spreten, pripraven) človek; opolzka knjiga ali gledališka igra

none of your stuff! — nehaj že s svojimi neumnostmi!

silk stuff — svilena tkanina

this book is sorry stuff — ta knjiga ni počenega groša vredna (je za v koš)

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!

he has written some first-rate stuff — napisal je nekaj prvovrstnih stvari

that is the stuff to give him figuratively tako je treba z njim govoriti (ravnati)

II [stʌf]

transitive verb

nabasati, 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 owl — nagačena sova

stuffed shirt American slang naduta, domišljava, napihnjena oseba

to stuff o.s. — prenajesti se

to stuff a car with people — prenatlačiti ljudi v avto

to stuff geese — pitati goske

to stuff s.o. colloquially natvesti komu (kaj), zlagáti se komu

he was trying to stuff you — skušal vam je eno natvesti

he was only stuffing — samo širokoustil se je (lagal je)

to be stuffed — imeti (od nahoda) zamašen nos

to stuff a pupil with dates — basati datume v učenca