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gadget
English
Etymology
Unknown. First used in print by Robert Brown in 1886 (see quote in definition section). Might come from French gâchette or gagée. Compare Finnish koje (“instrument, device”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?æd??t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?æd??t/
- Rhymes: -æd??t
- Hyphenation: gad?get
Noun
gadget (plural gadgets)
- (obsolete) A thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey.
- 1886, Robert Brown, Spunyard and Spindrift, A Sailor Boy's Log of a Voyage Out and Home in a China Tea-clipper:
- Then the names of all the other things on board a ship! I don't know half of them yet; even the sailors forget at times, and if the exact name of anything they want happens to slip from their memory, they call it a chicken-fixing, or a gadjet, or a timmey-noggy, or a wim-wom—just pro tem., you know.
- 1886, Robert Brown, Spunyard and Spindrift, A Sailor Boy's Log of a Voyage Out and Home in a China Tea-clipper:
- Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled. Often either clever or complicated.
- (informal) Any consumer electronics product.
- (computing) A sequence of machine code instructions crafted as part of an exploit that attempts to divert execution to a memory location chosen by the attacker.
- Security > Red Hat > CVE Database > CVE-2019-1125
- A Spectre gadget was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of system interrupts.
- Security > Red Hat > CVE Database > CVE-2019-1125
Synonyms
- contraption
- contrivance
- doohickey
- gizmo
- widget
Alternative forms
- gadjet
Derived terms
- gadgetbahn
- gadgety
Translations
Further reading
- gadget on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- dagget, tagged
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English gadget.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a.d??t/
Noun
gadget m (plural gadgets)
- gadget
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English gadget.
Noun
gadget m (invariable)
- gadget (small device)
Romanian
Etymology
From English gadget.
Noun
gadget n (plural gadgeturi)
- gadget
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English gadget.
Noun
gadget m (plural gadgets)
- gadget
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stuff
English
Etymology
From Middle English stuffen (“to equip, furnish”), from Old French estoffer ("to provide what is necessary, equip, stuff"; > French étoffer and étouffer), from Frankish *stopf?n, *stopp?n (“to cram, plug, stuff”), from Proto-Germanic *stupp?n? (“to clog up, block, fill”). Cognate with Old High German stoff?n, stopf?n (“to plug, stuff”), Old English stoppian (“to stop up, close”) and Albanian shtyp (“to press, squeeze, stuff”). Compare Dutch stof, and German Stoff. More at stop.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?f/
- Rhymes: -?f
Noun
stuff (usually uncountable, plural stuffs)
- (informal) Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.
- 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.
- (obsolete, uncountable) Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
- 1630, John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward VI,
- He took away locks, and gave away the king's stuff.
- 1630, John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward VI,
- (informal) Unspecified things or matters.
- The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object — as for example breadstuff into bread, or (more figuratively) the right stuff into an astronaut.
- Synonyms: matter, ingredients, constituents; see also Thesaurus:substance
- 1697, John Davies, A Poem on the Immortality of the Soul
- The workman on his stuff his skill doth show, / And yet the stuff gives not the man his skill.
- (archaic) A material for making clothing; any woven textile, but especially a woollen fabric.
- 1857, The National Magazine (volumes 10-11, page 350)
- "And you can buy a dress for your wife off this piece of stuff," said Lisetta, who had always an eye to business.
- 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.
- 1857, The National Magazine (volumes 10-11, page 350)
- (archaic) Boards used for building.
- Abstract/figurative 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
- c.1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 3, scene 2, 91–94:
- Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- (informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
- Synonyms: doodad, thingamabob; see also Thesaurus:thingy
- (slang) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
- Synonyms: dope, gear; see also Thesaurus:recreational drug
- 1947, William Burroughs, letter, 11 March:
- For some idiotic reason the bureaucrats are more opposed to tea than to stuff.
- 1975, Mary Sanches, Ben G. Blount, Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Use (page 47)
- For example, one addict would crack shorts (break and enter cars) and usually obtain just enough stolen goods to buy stuff and get off just before getting sick.
- (obsolete) A medicine or mixture; a potion.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- (obsolete) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.
- Synonyms: garbage, rubbish; see also Thesaurus:trash
- Anger would indite / Such woeful stuff as I or Shadwell write.
- (nautical) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ham. Nav. Encyc to this entry?)
- (slang, criminal argot, dated) Money.
Usage notes
- The textile sense is increasingly specialized and sounds dated in everyday contexts. In the UK & Commonwealth it designates the cloth from which legal and academic gowns are made, except for the gowns of Queen's/King's/State Counsel, which are (often in contradistinction) made of silk.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
stuff (third-person singular simple present stuffs, present participle stuffing, simple past and past participle stuffed)
- (transitive) To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
- I'm going to stuff this pillow with feathers.
- Lest the gods, for sin, / Should with a swelling dropsy stuff thy skin.
- (transitive) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
- 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.
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
- (Should we delete(+) this redundant sense?) (transitive, cooking) To fill with seasoning.
- (transitive) To load goods into (a container) for transport.
- (transitive, used in the passive) To sate.
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
- Synonyms: fill one's face, feed one's face, stuff one's face
- She sits on the sofa all day, watching TV and stuffing herself with cream buns.
- (transitive, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To break; to destroy.
- (transitive, vulgar, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To sexually penetrate.
- Synonyms: fuck, root, screw
- His wife came home early and found him on the couch stuffing the maid.
- (transitive, mildly vulgar, often imperative) Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it.
- (informal) To heavily defeat or get the better of.
- Mudchester Rovers were stuffed 7-0 in the semi-final.
- They totally stuffed us in that business deal.
- (transitive) To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.
- To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
- (transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
- (Should we delete(+) this redundant sense?) (transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
- 1724, Jonathan Swift, Drapier's Letters, 5
- 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.
- 1724, Jonathan Swift, Drapier's Letters, 5
- (transitive, dated) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
- (transitive, computing) To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
Derived terms
Translations
References
- stuff at OneLook Dictionary Search
- stuff in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Tuffs, tuffs
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