stuff

Plural: stuffs

Noun

• the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
  • "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"
• miscellaneous unspecified objects
  • "the trunk was full of stuff"
• informal terms for personal possessions
• senseless talk
  • "don't give me that stuff"
• unspecified qualities required to do or be something
  • "the stuff of heros"
  • "you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine"
• information in some unspecified form
  • "it was stuff I had heard before"
  • "there's good stuff in that book"
• a critically important or characteristic component
  • "suspense is the very stuff of narrative"
• Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.
• Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.
• Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
• Unspecified things or matters.
• The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
• The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
• A material for making clothing; any woven textile, but especially a woollen fabric.
• The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
• Boards used for building.
• The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
• Abstract/figurative substance or character.
• The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
• Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.
• Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
• Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
• A medicine or mixture; a potion.
• Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language.
• A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
• Money.

Verb

Verb Forms: stuffed, stuffing, stuffs

• To fill or pack something tightly, often to capacity.
• cram into a cavity
  • "The child stuffed candy into his pockets"
• press or force
  • "Stuff money into an envelope"
• obstruct
  • "My nose is all stuffed"
• overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
  • "She stuffed herself at the dinner"
• treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting
  • "stuff a bearskin"
• fill tightly with a material
  • "stuff a pillow with feathers"
• fill with a stuffing while cooking
  • "Have you stuffed the turkey yet?"
• To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
• To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
• To fill with seasoning.
• To load goods into (a container) for transport.
• To sate.
• To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
• To break; to destroy.
• To sexually penetrate.
• Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it.
• To heavily defeat or get the better of.
• 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.
• To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
• To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
• To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
• To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.

Examples

• Can I have some of that stuff on my ice-cream sundae?
• Don't give me any of that 'what-about' stuff!
• Don’t stuff too many high-point tiles into your rack; it might limit your plays.
• He skidded off the road and totally stuffed his brand new car.
• He stuffed his clothes into the closet and shut the door.
• His wife came home early and found him on the couch stuffing the maid.
• I got stuffed by that guy on the supermoto going into that turn, almost causing us to crash.
• I had to do some stuff.
• I'm going to stuff this pillow with feathers.
• I’m stuffed after having eaten all that turkey, mashed potatoes and delicious stuffing.
• Mudchester Rovers were stuffed 7–0 in the semi-final.
• She sits on the sofa all day, watching TV and stuffing herself with cream buns.
• She stuffed the turkey for Thanksgiving using her secret recipe.
• Stuff your stupid rules, I'll do what I like.
• They totally stuffed us in that business deal.
• What is all that stuff on your bedroom floor?  He didn't want his pockets to bulge so he was walking around with all his stuff in his hands.

Synonyms

binge, block, choke up, clobber, englut, engorge, farce, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, hooey, ingurgitate, lug, material, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, poppycock, satiate, scarf out, shove, squeeze, stuff and nonsense, thrust, BS, Bandini, Greek, Irish bull, MacGuffin, Sorted alphabetically, Sorted by number of Google hits, absurdity, affair, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash, balls, baloney, banana oil, baragouin, batcrap, batshit, bazinga, bilgewater, bizzo, blah, blather, blatherskite, bobbins, body, bollocks, bosh, bull, bull feathers, bullcrap, bulldust, bullshit, bullspeak, bunk, bunkum, bushwah, clamjamfrey, claptrap, cobblers, codswallop, constituents, corporeity, crap, crock, crock of shit, cultch, dealie, dealy, debris, dinglehopper, dingus, dohickey, dojigger, dongle, doo-hickey, doober, doodad, doodah, doofer, doohickey, doohickus, doohinkey, doohinkus, doojigger, doovalacky, dope, double Dutch, double talk, doublespeak, dreck, drek, drivel, drug, eyewash, feed one's face, fiddle-faddle, fill one's face, flapdoodle, flim-flam, flizz, flummery, folderol, foo, foobar, foolishness, footle, framis, frammis, frobnitz, fuck, fuckery, fuckry, fudge, gadget, galimatias, garbage, garble, gear, geegaw, gewgaw, gibber, gibberish, gimmick, gingambob, gingumbob, gismo, gizmo, gobbledygook, gossip, gubbins, guff, gup, hickey, hoax, hocus-pocus, hodad, hogwash, hokum, hootenanny, horse, horse hockey, horse piss, horse puckey, horsefeathers, horseshit, humbug, ingredients, jabber, jargon, jawn, jibber-jabber, jigger, jimbang, jimjam, jive, jobber, jobby, joint, junk, kajigger, kludge, lallation, litter, macaroni, malarkey, manure, mass, matter, meaninglessness, moonshine, mumbo jumbo, nertz, nonsense, oojamaflip, pelf, pie in the sky, piece of crap, piece of garbage, piece of shit, piece of trash, piffle, pigswill, pile of crap, pile of shit, prattle, put-on, recreational drug, refuse, rhubarb, rhubarb rhubarb, rigamajig, rigmarole, root, rot, roughage, rubbish, ruse, santorum, screw, service item, shebang, shit, shite, skimble-skamble, squit, stuff, stuff one's face, substance, thing, thingabob, thingamabob, thingamabobber, thingamafuck, thingamajig, thingamajigger, thingamajiggy, thingie, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingmy, thingo, thingum, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummabob, thingummajig, thingummy, thingummyjig, thingy, thingymabob, thingymajig, ting, tommy-rot, tosh, trash, tripe, tush, twaddle, wass, waste, whachacallit, whachamacallit, whaddayacallit, whatchacallit, whatchamacallit, whatchamahoozie, whatdoyoucallit, whatdyecallem, whatnot, whatsaname, whatsis, whatsit, whatsitsname, whiff-whaff, whosiewhatsit, whosit, widget, word salad, wossisname, wossname, wotsit, yoke, yokibus

Antonyms

unstuff

Anagrams of stuff