1. Material used in cooking; requisites for the kitchen, esp. vegetables.
1606. Sir G. Goosecappe, III. ii. in Bullen, O. Pl. (1884), III. 52. To sooth their pallats with choyce kitchin-stuff.
c. 1710. Celia Fiennes, Diary (1888), 299. Another Garden for Kitchen Stuff.
1744. (title) Adam’s Luxury, and Eve’s Cookery … Containing … Receipts for dressing all Sorts of Kitchen-Stuff.
2. The refuse or waste products of the kitchen; spec. dripping, kitchen-fee.
1577. B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb. (1586), 904. All those that smell of grease or kitchingstuffe.
1583. Stubbes, Anat. Abus., II. (1882), 49. They make them [candles] of all kind of kitchen stuffe, and other stinking baggage.
1697. Dampier, Voy. (1729), I. 537. When they want Oil, they make use of Kitchin-stuff.
1719. D’Urfey, Pills (1872), VI. 125. Come Maids bring out your Kitchen-stuff, Old Rags, or Women’s Hair.
1836–9. Dickens, Sk. Boz, v. (1849), 43/2. Shops for the purchase of rags, bones, old iron, and kitchen-stuff.
b. fig. Of persons or things. contemptuous.
1637. Heywood, Royall King, III. Wks. 1874, VI. 46. Where be those kitchinstuffes here, shall we have no attendants?
1654. Vilvain, Theol. Treat., Suppl. 216. [They] scorn the book of Homilies as most cours contemptible Kitchin-stuf.
1754. Warburton, Ld. Bolingbroke’s Philos. (R.). Would you easily believe his lordship could pride himself in cooking up this old kitchin-stuff?
3. attrib. and Comb.
1603. Dekker, Wonderfull Yeare, F ij. All the way hee went, was more greazie than a kitchin-stuffe-wifes basket.
1608. Middleton, Trick to Catch Old One, III. iv. Thou kitchin-stuffe drab of Beggery, Roguery, & cockscombre.
1681. W. Robertson, Phraseol. Gen. (1693), 789. A kitchin-stuff-wench.
