Stuff vs Squirt - What's the difference?
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Miscellaneous items; things; (with possessive) personal effects.
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*:The Bat—they called him the Bat.. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
*Sir (c.1569-1626)
*:The workman on his stuff' his skill doth show, / And yet the ' stuff gives not the man his skill.
A material for making clothing; any woven textile, but 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.
Abstract substance or character.
*c.1599 , (William Shakespeare),
*:When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; / Ambition should be made of sterner stuff
*c.1610 , (William Shakespeare), (The Tempest) ,
*:We are such stuff / As dreams are made on
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(lb) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
*1947 , William Burroughs, letter, 11 March:
*:For some idiotic reason the bureaucrats are more opposed to tea than to stuff .
Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
*Sir (c.1564-1627)
*:He took away locks, and gave away the king's stuff .
(lb) A medicine or mixture; a potion.
:(Shakespeare)
(lb) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:Anger would indite / Such woeful stuff as I or Shadwell write.
(lb) 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 .
:(Knight)
To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
* Dryden
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
* Francis Bacon
(used in the passive) To sate.
(transitive, British, Australia, New Zealand) To be broken. (rfex)
To sexually penetrate. (rfex)
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.
To preserve a dead bird or animal by filling its skin.
To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
* Shakespeare
To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
* Jonathan Swift
(dated) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
An instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream.
A small, quick stream; a jet.
* 2007 , Peter Elst, Sas Jacobs, Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0 ,
(slang) An annoyingly pretentious person; a whippersnapper.
* 1946 , , 2005,
(UK, US, Australia, slang) A small child.
* 1986 , Alethea Helbig, Agnes Perkins, Cutlass Island'', entry in ''Dictionary of American Children?s Fiction, 1960-1984: Recent Books of Recognized Merit ,
* 2010 , Karen Witemeyer, A Tailor-Made Bride , Bethany House Publishers, US,
(slang) Female ejaculate
(of a liquid) To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice.
* 1865 , , The Book of Werewolves , 2008, Forgotten Books,
(of a liquid) To cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice.
* Sir Walter Scott
* 1985 , The Living Australia, Dangerous Australians: The Complete Guide to Australia?s Most Deadly Creatures , 2002, Murdoch Books,
* 2005 , Lisa Heard, NancyRayhorn, 8: Pediatric Sedation'', Jan Odom-Forren, Donna Watson, ''Practical Guide To Moderate Sedation/Analgesia , 2nd Edition,
* 2011 , James Balch, Mark Stengler, Prescription for Natural Cures ,
To hit with a rapid stream of liquid.
* 2010 , Christy Isbell, Mighty Fine Motor Fun: Fine Motor Activities for Young Children ,
(figuratively) To throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate.
(intransitive, slang, vulgar, of a female) To ejaculate.
* 2010 , Sonia Borg, Oral Sex She?ll Never Forget ,
In transitive terms the difference between stuff and squirt
is that stuff is to form or fashion by packing with the necessary material while squirt is to hit with a rapid stream of liquid.stuff
English
(wikipedia stuff)Noun
(en-noun)George Goodchild
Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).}}
Usage notes
* The textile sense is increasingly specialized and sounds dated in everyday contexts.Verb
(en verb)- She stuffed the turkey for Thanksgiving using her secret stuffing recipe.
- Lest the gods, for sin, / Should with a swelling dropsy stuff thy skin.
- The Rabbit could not claim to be a model of anything, for he didn’t know that real rabbits existed; he thought they were all stuffed with sawdust like himself, and he understood that sawdust was quite out-of-date and should never be mentioned in modern circles.
- He stuffed his clothes into the closet and shut the door.
- Put roses into a glass with a narrow mouth, stuffing them close together and they retain smell and colour.
- I’m stuffed after having eaten all that turkey, mashed potatoes and delicious stuffing.
- I got stuffed by that guy on the supermoto going into that turn, almost causing us to crash.
- I'm stuffed , cousin; I cannot smell.
- 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.
Synonyms
* (to sexually penetrate) fuck, root, screwDerived terms
* * stuff the ballot box * stuffyDerived terms
* made of sterner stuff * stuff one's face * stuff up * stuff-up * stuff you * stuffed up * get stuffedAnagrams
* * English placeholder termssquirt
English
Noun
(en noun)page 9,
- Chances are you?ll get a squirt of citrus juice in your eye.
page 606,
- He was still there when I came up, a squirt' with his hat over one eye and a camera hung round his neck and a grin on his '''squirt''' face. I thought maybe I had seen him around town, but maybe not, the ' squirts look so much alike when they grind them out of journalism school.
- Hey squirt ! Where you been?
page 137,
- Hurd returns with Mal, Mr. Eph, and Gumbo, the “town squirt ” of twelve, and the boys? activities come out.
page 66,
- How the child managed to converse and fold at the same time was a marvel, yet the shirt lay in a tidy rectangle by the time she came up for air.
- “Thanks, squirt .” He winked at her and she giggled.
Synonyms
* (instrument that forcefully ejects liquid) * * (annoyingly pretentious person) * (small child)Derived terms
* sea squirt * squirt bottleVerb
(en verb)- The toothpaste squirted from the tube.
page 121,
- His servants would stab a child in the jugular vein, and let the blood squirt over him.
- The hard-featured miscreant coolly rolled his tobacco in his cheek, and squirted the juice into the fire grate.
page 88,
- It can squirt this poison in jets up to a distance of one metre and usually aims at the eyes of its victim.
page 171,
- When administering the medication, the RN should place the syringe tip along the side of the mouth and slowly squirt the medicine toward the buccal vestibule, not toward the throat.
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- Use a dropper and squirt the desired amount in the side of the child?s mouth.
page 81,
- Ask the child to squirt the target with water.
page 9,
- Women who squirt rhapsodize about the experience, reporting that it elicits feelings of empowerment and a deeper connection to their own bodies.