Stuffed shirt

Definition

stuff 1 /stʌf/ n ၁။ [U] ( infml ) (က) ဥစၥာ။ ပစၥည္း။ အရာ။ ဟာ။ What's that brown stuff on your jacket? ❍ The cushions are full of this rubbery stuff. See also FOODSTUFF (ခ) အရာ။ ဟာ။ ဥစၥာ။ ကိစၥ။ Leave your stuff in the hall. ❍ It's not the kind of stuff I usually read. ❍ I like windsurfing, canoeing and stuff like that. ❍ There's been some really good stuff on TV lately. ❍ This is kids' stuff (ie simple, suitable for children)—let's try something more difficult. ၂။ [U] ( fml ) အစြမ္းအစ။ အရင္းခံ။ Real life is the stuff of all good novels. ❍ We must find out what (kind of) stuff he is made of (ie what sort of man he is, what his character is). See also HOT STUFF ❏ do one's stuff [ IDM ] ( infml ) အစြမ္းအစျပသည္။ It's your turn to sing now, so do your stuff. ❏ stuff and nonsense [ IDM ] interj ( dated infml ) မျဖစ္ႏိုင္တာ။ အဓိပၸာယ္မရိွတာ။ Stuff and nonsense! You don't know what you're talking about. ❏ that's the stuff! [ IDM ] ( infml approv ) ဒီလိုမွေပါ့။ stuff 2 /stʌf/ v ၁။ (က) ~ A (up) (with B) ျပည့္က်ပ္ေနသည္။ သိပ္ထည့္သည္။ သြတ္သည္။ ပိတ္သည္။ stuff envelopes (ie fill a lot of envelopes with the same printed letter, etc) ❍ stuff a pillow (with feathers) ❍ My nose is stuffed up (ie blocked, eg as the result of a cold). ❍ The case was stuffed full of old clothes. ❍ ( fig ) Don't stuff his head with silly ideas. (ခ) ~ B into A/in သိပ္ထည့္သည္။ သြတ္သည္။ ဖိသိပ္သြင္းသည္။ stuff feathers into a pillow ❍ She stuffed her clothes in and then tried to close the lid. ၂။ ထိုးသြင္းသည္။ ထိုးထည့္သည္။ She stuffed the book in(to) her pocket. ❍ He stuffed the letter through (the door) and hurried away. ၃။ ~ oneself/sb (with sth) ( infml ) အဝအၿပဲစားသည္။ နင့္ေအာင္စားသည္။ လင္းတမ်ဳိ မ်ဳိသည္။ She sat stuffing herself (with popcorn) all through the film. ၄။ ~ sth (with sth) အဆာသြတ္သည္။ stuffed green peppers (eg cooked with rice inside) ❍ turkey stuffed with sage and onion/chestnuts. ၅။ (esp passive) (တိရစၧာန္အေသေကာင္ကို) ႐ုပ္လံုးသြင္းသည္။ a stuffed tiger/owl. ၆။ ( sl ) ႀကိဳက္သလိုလုပ္ (ငါမလိုခ်င္)။ You can stuff the job, I don't want it! ❏ get stuffed [ IDM ] ( Brit derog sl ) သြားစမ္းကြာ။ He wanted to borrow some money but I told him to get stuffed. ❏ stuffed shirt n ( infml derog ) ဟိတ္ဟန္မ်ားသူ။ ကိန္းႀကီး ခန္းႀကီးႏိုင္သူ။ ❏ stuff one's face [ IDM ] ( sl usu derog ) အပင္းလွ်ဳိသည္။ မ်ဳိဆို႔သည္။ He sat there, stuffing his face (with chocolates). ❏ stuffing n [U] ၁။ ( US also dressing ) အဆာ။ ဌာပနာ။ sage-and-onion stuffing. ၂။ အဆာ။ The stuffing is coming out of my pillow/mattress/doll.

Examples

1. What’s all this stuff on my desk?
2. By the time we got to the sale
3. all the good stuff was gone.
4. The school stuff goes on this shelf.
5. The tennis/kitchen/baking stuff
6. [someone’s stuff] : Would you get your stuff out of here?
7. I’m telling him we don’t want all that stupid stuff here.
8. The costumes were made of thin
9. gauzy stuff.
10. Wheat’s the stuff they use to make spaghetti and cereal.
11. We need salad stuff.
12. What’s that sticky stuff in your hair?
13. Get me some of that stuff for fixing windows.
14. I think he has the right stuff for the job.
15. There was a lot of bad stuff going on at that school.
16. I already know all that stuff.
17. [good stuff] : They publish a lot of good stuff.
18. Rachel tried to give me that stuff about being ignored.