Now S. African. Also 5 stuf. [a. Du. stof dust (cogn. w. G. staub): two independent adoptions.] Dust.
1481. Caxton, Reynard, xxxix. (Arb.), 107. Thenne wold he goo aboue the wynde and reyse the duste, that it made his eyen ful of stufs.
1863. W. C. Baldwin, Afr. Hunting, vi. 145. Herds … scouring away before me … amid such a cloud of stuff raised by their own tearing away that I never knew what I was firing at.
