stuff you
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9.9
- idiom
- Offensive
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- When he started arguing, I just said, 'Stuff you!' and walked away.
Examples
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She rolled her eyes and replied, 'Stuff you,' before leaving the room.
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You always come up with excuses; just please, stuff you.
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If you make cool stuff you have to make it funny.
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We got all the stuff you asked for.
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Where's all the stuff you said?
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Those are pictures of real things, and all the other stuff you see on there, that's real, too.
Synonyms
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9.9
A rude phrase used to strongly reject or insult someone
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9.9
Tell someone angrily to go away and that you will not accept their idea
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9.9
Tell someone rudely to go away or leave you alone
Rudely say to someone that you want them to go away
A rude phrase telling someone you refuse their request and they should go away
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
stuff + you
The meaning of 'stuff you' as a rude dismissive retort cannot be derived from the literal senses of 'stuff' (to fill or noun meaning things) plus 'you'; a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would not predict an insult or dismissal from those meanings. This is a conventionalized, idiomatic pragmatic use (colloquial insult) that is language-specific and not compositionally transparent.
Etymology
Stuff you may come from the rude older phrase stuff yourself, where stuff means to push something into someone and you points at that person. The image of forcing something on someone became a strong insult, so people use it to tell someone 'go away' or to show 'anger' and 'disrespect'.