Green’s Dictionary of Slang

nonsense! rubbish!

1697		M. Pix Innocent Mistress I ii: Stuff, pshaw!
1770		Foote Lame Lover in Works (1799) II 68: Pshaw! stuff!
1825		Pierce Egan’s Life in London 9 Jan. 397/3: Some chaffing took place between the Minor Coves respecting New Matches, but the Judges exclaimed, ‘Stuff!’ .
1831		Navy at Home II 257: ‘Pugh! stuff!’ said the doctor [...] ‘what signifies, whether he had a garden, or no’.
1837		A. Greene Glance at N.Y. II iii: Pooh! pooh! stuff!
1841		W.J. Neale Paul Periwinkle 592: Stuff, child, stuff.
1856		C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend I 256: Stuff! his reason’s safe enough, what little he has.
1867		R. Whiteing Mr Sprouts, His Opinions 27: ‘Stuff,’ he ses, ‘that’s what they do in the furrin Parliaments.’.
1874		M. Clarke Term of His Natural Life (1897) 399: ‘Stuff!’ said her husband. ‘They’ve not the courage.’.
1884		(con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn (2001) 252: ‘Are you English, too?’ I says yes; and him and some others laughed, and said, ‘Stuff!’.
1888		Dly Gaz. for Middlesborough 6 Apr. 4/4: ‘Stuff!’ said he; ‘it was a trick we played you, that’s all’.
1896		G.M. Fenn Sappers and Miners 27: ‘Yah! stuff!’ growled Hardock.
1911		Gem 28 Oct. 16: Oh, stuff!
1927		‘Max Brand’ Pleasant Jim 182: ‘Stuff!’ said Sally.
1939		R. Chandler Big Sleep 174: ‘I don’t believe you [...] it’s a trap.’ ‘Oh, stuff.’.
1947		S.J. Perelman ‘Whatever Goes Up’ Keep It Crisp 64: Stuff and double stuff!