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blackstuff

noun

Etymology

From black + stuff, popularized by the 1982 BBC television series Boys from the Blackstuff.

  1. derived from *stoppōn✻ — “to clog up, block, fill”
  2. derived from stoffōn
  3. derived from estofe
  4. derived from stuffa
  5. inherited from stuf
  6. compounded as blackstuff — “black + stuff”

Definitions

  1. Tarmac.

    • I continue my climb along the road that once was dirt and pebbles but now is freshly paved with blackstuff.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for blackstuff. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA