stuff up
(slang, UK, Australian, intransitive) To make a big mistake.
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https://artfight.net/~ChangelingCritter psssst you should go follow my artfight.... still setting stuff up btw
artfight.net/~ChangelingC... psssst you should go follow my artfight.... still setting stuff up btw
It's fun to make stuff up, isn't it.
lately i've been feeling highly discouraged because despite fixing a bunch of stuff up in other areas and trying to get my life together everything I've drawn lately has been BAD. Nothing's working!
You see someone in a supermarket picking stuff up, reading the ingredients, sighing, and putting it back? Probably gluten. It’s really bad in France. I starve in that place. Seriously. World capital of hypoglycaemia…
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(slang, UK, Australian, intransitive) To make a big mistake.
We lost the match because of the goalkeeper stuffing up.
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(slang, transitive) To ruin or harm.
Don't drink tonight, because it'll stuff you up before your business trip.
“You see someone in a supermarket picking stuff up, reading the ingredients, sighing, and putting it back? Probably gluten. It’s really bad in France. I starve in that place. Seriously. World capital of hypoglycaemia for the gluten intolerant.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“yeah.. just bots propping stuff up”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I don't think that helps at all. They still make things up even when you tell them not to make things up. They have no concept of whether they are making stuff up or not. They just work on probability of text combinations and steal a lot of stuff that was also made up.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“One of the bigger objections here is that Musk absolutely does not believe in any of those things. He makes stuff up on the spot so people will give him more money. That it.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Fewer errors is better than no errors, but if you can’t trust the output, you’re not really saving yourself much time compared to using your own brain and looking stuff up.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(transitive) To cause (the nasal passages) to be blocked.
My nose is all stuffed up so I'm speaking funny.
“https://artfight.net/~ChangelingCritter psssst you should go follow my artfight.... still setting stuff up btw”
— Bluesky· May 2026“artfight.net/~ChangelingC... psssst you should go follow my artfight.... still setting stuff up btw”
— Bluesky· May 2026“It's fun to make stuff up, isn't it.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“lately i've been feeling highly discouraged because despite fixing a bunch of stuff up in other areas and trying to get my life together everything I've drawn lately has been BAD. Nothing's working!”
— Bluesky· May 2026“It's coming from Labour MPs. Yes they are unnamed - of course they are! - but Pippa is not making this stuff up.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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