What's the difference between clobber and stuff?

Clobber


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Small business gets clobbered by taxes and business rates, while big business turns around and says to the state: "This is how much tax I fancy paying this year, take it or leave it".
  • (2) Mark Cavendish, the flash "Manx Missile", who has won 25 stages of the Tour de France, thanks his "sprint train" with expensive watches and designer clobber when they lead him out to victory.
  • (3) 7.10pm BST Game and third set to Milos Raonic The Canadian clobbers an ace to take the game to love.
  • (4) This rhetoric has been dropped since he gained power and he now accepts that climate change is a problem worth tackling, provided it doesn’t “clobber jobs”.
  • (5) Ed Krell, the chief executive of US group Destination Maternity, has left to "pursue other opportunities", six weeks after he somehow saw an opportunity to bid for the UK baby clobber chain.
  • (6) I wanted not to give the impression of ‘here I come, surrounded by the security detail, out of the big white car with journos hanging off my every word, I’m so powerful’ – I actually wanted to give the impression to people that despite all the eccentric clobber that’s around me, we can have a conversation.
  • (7) All three of the city's branches of the Strenesse fashion chain, stockists of official Nationalmannschaft clobber, have run out of the slinky kashmir number (just €299 to you), and there's now a waiting list, but new stocks aren't expected until August."
  • (8) After a 4-0 clobbering by Germany in their opening game, manager Paulo Bento had been candid enough to admit that anything less than a victory over the USA would effectively spell the end for his team.
  • (9) But then the morning comes with a story about a clobbered gay man.
  • (10) Women nipped about on mopeds in summer frocks instead of the usual leather clobber; sales of bikes and scooter below the 125cc limit - which allowed you unlimited travel if you had L-plates - went up by a quarter.
  • (11) I then came across an ebook by Mary Elizabeth Croft, How I Clobbered every Cash Confiscatory Bureau .
  • (12) What the experts say: TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady: An early interest rate rise would clobber mortgage holders and businesses – jeopardising our economic recovery.
  • (13) Jack Wilshere felt his ankle after a tackle from Mehmet Topal; Wojciech Szczesny was caught late by Moussa Sow and suffered scratches to his neck while Per Mertesacker was clobbered by an elbow from Bruno Alves, for which the Fenerbahce player was booked.
  • (14) The big fear is that consumers, especially the majority of homeowners with floating-rate mortgages, will be clobbered if the Bank of England feels compelled to raise interest rates.
  • (15) Those stands were awash with sunlight and yellow clobber as the crowd generated a cheery hubbub aimed at helping their team to climb out of its predicament.
  • (16) Add in high oil prices, falling house prices in countries such as Spain and Ireland, plus last month's interest rate rise from the European Central Bank, and you have a toxic mix that is clobbering an economic area which until recently was proud of being less exposed than Britain to the credit crunch.
  • (17) Here, clobber, shoes and jewellery are on the menu, complete with a Tinder-style swiping system to like or reject individual items.
  • (18) Small properties in London would be clobbered, but "mansions" (by comparison) would seem like tax havens.
  • (19) There was no need for him to point to misfortune here, as his team fully deserved their clobbering.
  • (20) Thus the Labour leader realised his speech would see him clobbered from the Labour right and the Labour left in unholy unprecedented alliance.

Stuff


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.
  • (v. t.) The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence.
  • (v. t.) Woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind; specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber.
  • (v. t.) Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
  • (v. t.) A medicine or mixture; a potion.
  • (v. t.) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.
  • (v. t.) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
  • (v. t.) Paper stock ground ready for use.
  • (n.) To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick.
  • (n.) To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack.
  • (n.) To fill by being pressed or packed into.
  • (n.) To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey.
  • (n.) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
  • (n.) To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; -- said of birds or other animals.
  • (n.) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
  • (n.) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
  • (n.) To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).
  • (v. i.) To feed gluttonously; to cram.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She read geography at Oxford, where Benazir Bhutto (a future prime minister of Pakistan, assassinated in 2007) introduced May to her future husband, Philip May: "I hate to say this, but it was at an Oxford University Conservative Association disco… this is wild stuff.
  • (2) In October, an episode of South Park saw the whole town go gluten-free (the stuff, it was discovered, made one’s penis fly off).
  • (3) It’s good stuff.” Opening markets to US-made products overseas is one of the better things that could happen for US small business and their employees, said Obama.
  • (4) A Tory spokesman said: “This is feeble stuff from a party with no economic plan and a leader who just isn’t up it.
  • (5) The "fly on the wall" stuff is no more for the moment but, Andy, grab the opportunities when you can – a few years down the line when Cameron is on the lecture circuit and the rest of us are hanging up our cameras for good, you should have an unprecedented photographic record of a seat of power.
  • (6) He’s struck a few chords with the immigration stuff, and he’s managed to capture the most valuable asset in a campaign, which is the attention of the press.
  • (7) I don’t buy any of the horse race stuff,” Bush said Tuesday.
  • (8) Del Bosque had listened to the criticism, all that stuff about it being a negative tactic, and decided not to budge an inch, and who can blame him?
  • (9) Real people, by contrast, care more about their jobs, where they live, and the fuzzy stuff of security, happiness and a sense of belonging.
  • (10) He must have had PR training – didn’t it stretch to not saying stupid stuff?
  • (11) "A lot of this stuff we inherited and had to continue," a Downing Street source said.
  • (12) Updated at 4.05am BST 4.00am BST Dodgers 3 - Cardinals 0, top of 9th And so it's all up to Yadier Molina, the Cardinals catcher who is looking to get a rally going, no easy task against Jansen who looks to have his best stuff tonight.
  • (13) As one source close to the inquiry put it: “There was a hell of a lot of dirty stuff going on.” Two earlier Yard inquiries had failed to investigate the relevant notes in Mulcaire’s logs.
  • (14) He says he did write grown-up stuff – Joking Apart in the 90s and Coupling in the 00s, sitcoms that riffed on his own sexual history.
  • (15) There's a cute one comparing feelings to children: you don't want to let them drive, but equally you don't want to stuff them in the boot.
  • (16) Who hasn’t moved house and chucked a load of old stuff just because they can’t face ramming it back into the Ikea chest of drawers?
  • (17) Hidden City writer Karl Whitney on Dublin Read more And now for a pint of the black stuff Ireland’s capital is awash with history but no visit would be complete without a sample of the black stuff.
  • (18) 1.57pm BST Lap 36: Punchy stuff from Jules Bianchi up to 13th, literally bumping his way through Kobayashi on the inside.
  • (19) "Good stuff this from City as they're effectively playing with ten men," opines Paul Ruffley.
  • (20) If you pushed them on Hitler you got the most extraordinary stuff: "He was mah-vellous.