STUFF

stuff

(noun) miscellaneous unspecified objects; “the trunk was full of stuff”

stuff

(noun) unspecified qualities required to do or be something; “the stuff of heros”; “you don’t have the stuff to be a United States Marine”

stuff

(noun) a critically important or characteristic component; “suspense is the very stuff of narrative”

stuff, stuff and nonsense, hooey, poppycock

(noun) senseless talk; “don’t give me that stuff”

stuff

(noun) information in some unspecified form; “it was stuff I had heard before”; “there’s good stuff in that book”

stuff, clobber

(noun) informal terms for personal possessions; “did you take all your clobber?”

material, stuff

(noun) the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; “coal is a hard black material”; “wheat is the stuff they use to make bread”

farce, stuff

(verb) fill with a stuffing while cooking; “Have you stuffed the turkey yet?”

stuff

(verb) fill tightly with a material; “stuff a pillow with feathers”

gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out

(verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; “She stuffed herself at the dinner”; “The kids binged on ice cream”

stuff, lug, choke up, block

(verb) obstruct; “My nose is all stuffed”; “Her arteries are blocked”

stuff

(verb) cram into a cavity; “The child stuffed candy into his pockets”

thrust, stuff, shove, squeeze

(verb) press or force; “Stuff money into an envelope”; “She thrust the letter into his hand”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

stuff (usually uncountable, plural stuffs)

(informal) Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.

(informal) Unspecified things or matters.

The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.

Synonyms: matter, Thesaurus:substance

(archaic) A material for making clothing; any woven textile, but especially a woollen fabric.

(archaic) Boards used for building.

Abstract substance or character.

(informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.

Synonyms: doodad, thingamabob, Thesaurus:thingy

(slang) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.

Synonyms: dope, gear, Thesaurus:recreational drug

(obsolete, uncountable) Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.

(obsolete) A medicine or mixture; a potion.

(obsolete) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.

Synonyms: garbage, rubbish, Thesaurus:trash

(nautical) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc, with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.

Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.

(slang, dated) Money.

Usage notes

• The textile sense is increasingly specialized and sounds dated in everyday contexts. In the UK & Commonwealth it designates the cloth from which legal and academic gowns are made, except for the gowns of Queen's/King's/State Counsel, which are (often in contradistinction) made of silk.

Verb

stuff (third-person singular simple present stuffs, present participle stuffing, simple past and past participle stuffed)

(transitive) To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.

(transitive) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.

(transitive, cooking) To fill with seasoning.

(transitive) To load goods into (a container) for transport.

(transitive, used in the passive) To sate.

(pronominal) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.

Synonyms: fill one's face, feed one's face, stuff one's face

(transitive, British, Australia, New Zealand) To break; to destroy.

(transitive, vulgar, British, Australia, New Zealand) To sexually penetrate.

Synonyms: fuck, root, screw

(transitive, mildly vulgar, often imperative) See also stuff it.

(informal) To heavily defeat or get the better of.

(transitive) To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.

To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.

(transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.

(transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.

(transitive, dated) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.

(transitive, computing) To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.

Anagrams

• Tuffs, tuffs

Source: Wiktionary

Stuff, n. Etym: [OF. estoffe, F. étoffe; of uncertain origin, perhaps of Teutonic origin and akin to E. stop, v.t. Cf. Stuff, v. t.]

1. Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture. For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much. Ex. xxxvi. 7. Ambitions should be made of sterner stuff. Shak. The workman on his stuff his skill doth show, And yet the stuff gives not the man his skill. Sir J. Davies.

2. The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence. Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience To do no contrived murder. Shak.

3. Woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind; specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber. What stuff wilt have a kirtle of Shak. It [the arras] was of stuff and silk mixed, though, superior kinds were of silk exclusively. F. G. Lee.

4. Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils. He took away locks, and gave away the king's stuff. Hayward.

5. A medicine or mixture; a potion. Shak.

6. Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash. Anger would indite Such woeful stuff as I or Shadwell write. Dryden.

7. (Naut.)

Definition: A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

8. Paper stock ground ready for use.

Note: When partly ground, called half stuff. Knight. Clear stuff. See under Clear.

– Small stuff (Naut.), all kinds of small cordage. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

– Stuff gown, the distinctive garb of a junior barrister; hence, a junior barrister himself. See Silk gown, under Silk.stuff and nonsense. (See def. 6 for stuff) balderdash, twaddle, nonsense, foolishness.

Stuff, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stuffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Stuffing.] Etym: [OE. stoffen; cf. OF. estoffer, F. étoffer, to put stuff in, to stuff, to line, also, OF. estouffer to stifle, F. étouffer; both perhaps of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. stop. Cf. Stop, v. t., Stuff, n.]

1. To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick. Sometimes this crook drew hazel bought adown, And stuffed her apron wide with nuts so brown. Gay. Lest the gods, for sin, Should with a swelling dropsy stuff thy skin. Dryden.

2. To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack. Put roses into a glass with a narrow mouth, stuffing them close together . . . and they retain smell and color. Bacon.

3. To fill by being pressed or packed into. With inward arms the dire machine they load, And iron bowels stuff the dark abode. Dryden.

4. (Cookery)

Definition: To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey.

5. To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration. I'm stuffed, cousin; I can not smell. Shak.

6. To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen;

– said of birds or other animals.

7. To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material. An Eastern king put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence, and ordered his hide to be stuffed into a cushion, and placed upon the tribunal. Swift.

8. To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.

9. To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box). [U. S.]

Stuff, v. i.

Definition: To feed gluttonously; to cram. Taught harmless man to cram and stuff. Swift.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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