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Joe,
I told old VP Pappy what you sais about how you loved his "stuff."
He immediately looked up "stuff" to see what is was you loved about
his "stuff.. He came up with this "stuff:"
The material out of which something is made or formed; substance.
The essential substance or elements; essence: "We are such
stuff/As
dreams are made on" (Shakespeare).
Informal.
Unspecified material: Put that stuff over there.
Household or personal articles considered as a group.
Worthless objects.
Slang. Specific talk or actions: Don't give me that stuff about being
tired.
Sports.
The control a player has over a ball, especially to give it spin,
english, curve, or speed.
The spin, english, curve, or speed imparted to a ball: "where we
could watch the stuff, mainly curves, that the pitchers were putting
on the ball" (James Henry Gray).
Basketball. A dunk shot.
Special capability: The team really showed its stuff and won the
championship.
Chiefly British. Woven material, especially woolens.
Slang. Money; cash.
Slang. A drug, especially one that is illegal or habit-forming.
v. stuffed, stuff·ing, stuffs
v. tr.
To pack (a container) tightly; cram: stuff a Christmas stocking.
To block (a passage); plug: stuff a crack with caulking.
Basketball. To block (a shot or an opponent who is shooting),
especially before the ball leaves the shooter's hands.
To place forcefully into a container or space; thrust: stuffed
laundry into the bag.
Sports. To shoot (a ball or puck) forcefully into the goal from close
range.
Basketball. To dunk (the ball).
To fill with an appropriate stuffing: stuff a pillow.
To fill (an animal skin) to restore its natural form for mounting or
display.
To cram with food.
To fill (the mind): His head is stuffed with silly notions.
To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).
To apply a preservative and softening agent to (leather).
v. intr.
To overeat; gorge.
Idioms:
stuff it Vulgar Slang
Used as an intensive to express extreme anger, frustration, or
disgust.
stuff (one's) face Slang
To eat greedily.
stuff
\Stuff\, n. [OF. estoffe, F. ['e]toffe; of uncertain origin, perhaps
of Teutonic origin and akin to E. stop, v.t. Cf. Stuff, v. t.] 1.
Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.
For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it,
and too much. --Ex. xxxvi. 7.
Ambitions should be made of sterner stuff. --Shak.
The workman on his stuff his skill doth show, And yet the stuff gives
not the man his skill. --Sir J. Davies.
2. The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental
part; essence.
Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience To do no contrived
murder. --Shak.
3. Woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind;
specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted;
sometimes, worsted fiber.
What stuff wilt have a kirtle of? --Shak.
It [the arras] was of stuff and silk mixed, though, superior kinds
were of silk exclusively. --F. G. Lee.
4. Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
He took away locks, and gave away the king's stuff. --Hayward.
5. A medicine or mixture; a potion. --Shak.
6. Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational
language; nonsense; trash.
Anger would indite Such woeful stuff as I or Shadwell write. --Dryden.
7. (Naut.) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the
masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication. --
Ham. Nav. Encyc.
8. Paper stock ground ready for use.
Note: When partly ground, called half stuff. --Knight.
Clear stuff. See under Clear.
Small stuff (Naut.), all kinds of small cordage. --Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Stuff gown, the distinctive garb of a junior barrister; hence, a
junior barrister himself. See Silk gown, under Silk.
\Stuff\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stuffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Stuffing.] [OE.
stoffen; cf. OF. estoffer, F. ['e]toffer, to put stuff in, to stuff,
to line, also, OF. estouffer to stifle, F. ['e]touffer; both perhaps
of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. stop. Cf. Stop, v. t., Stuff, n.]
1. To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to
load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick.
Sometimes this crook drew hazel bought adown, And stuffed her apron
wide with nuts so brown. --Gay.
Lest the gods, for sin, Should with a swelling dropsy stuff thy
skin. --Dryden.
2. To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack.
Put roses into a glass with a narrow mouth, stuffing them close
together . . . and they retain smell and color. --Bacon.
3. To fill by being pressed or packed into.
With inward arms the dire machine they load, And iron bowels stuff
the dark abode. --Dryden.
4. (Cookery) To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat,
condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey.
5. To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction
in the organs of sense or respiration.
I'm stuffed, cousin; I can not smell. --Shak.
6. To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; -
- said of birds or other animals.
7. To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
An Eastern king put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence, and
ordered his hide to be stuffed into a cushion, and placed upon the
tribunal. --Swift.
8. To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or
fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
9. To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box). [U. S.
\Stuff\, v. i. To feed gluttonously; to cram.
By the time VP finished reading this "stuff" about "stuff," he was
fat asleep stuffed in his wee little bed with visions of "stuffed"
sugar plums dancing in stuffed head.
Enough of this "stuff." Goodnight all.
Terry Murphy & VP Pappy
"I have this continual haunting feeling when I gamble, that
everybody in the casino is winning except me."
--VP Pappy
