stuff

[stuff]

"Good stuff!" you might say, tasting a delicious piece of cake. The word stuff could refer to all sorts of things. It's one of those words that you can use when you're too lazy to find the right word.

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Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.

Noun
miscellaneous unspecified objects; "the trunk was full of 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"

Noun
a critically important or characteristic component; "suspense is the very stuff of narrative"

Noun
senseless talk; "don''t give me that stuff"

Noun
information in some unspecified form; "it was stuff I had heard before"; "there''s good stuff in that book"

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Noun
informal terms for personal possessions; "did you take all your clobber?"

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"

Verb
fill with a stuffing while cooking; "Have you stuffed the turkey yet?"

Verb
fill tightly with a material; "stuff a pillow with feathers"; "The old lady wants to have her dead poodle stuffed by the taxidermist"

Verb
treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting; "stuff a bearskin"

Verb
overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on icecream"

Verb
obstruct; "My nose is all stuffed"; "Her arteries are blocked"

Verb
fill completely; "The child stuffed his pockets with candy"

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press or force; "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand"


v. t.
Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.

v. t.
The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence.

v. t.
Woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind; specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber.

v. t.
Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.

v. t.
A medicine or mixture; a potion.

v. t.
Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.

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

v. t.
Paper stock ground ready for use.

n.
To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick.

n.
To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack.

n.
To fill by being pressed or packed into.

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

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

n.
To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; -- said of birds or other animals.

n.
To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.

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

n.
To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).

v. i.
To feed gluttonously; to cram.


Stuff

Stuff , n. [OF. estoffe, F. '82toffe; 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.
Ambitions should be made of sterner stuff.
The workman on his stuff his skill doth show, And yet the stuff gives not the man his skill.
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.
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?
It [the arras] was of stuff and silk mixed, though, superior kinds were of silk exclusively.
4. Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
He took away locks, and gave away the king's stuff.
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.
7. (Naut.) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication. 8. Paper stock ground ready for use. &hand; 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

Stuff, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stuffed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Stuffing.] [OE. stoffen; cf. OF. estoffer, F. '82toffer, to put stuff in, to stuff, to line, also, OF. estouffer to stifle, F. '82touffer; 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.
Lest the gods, for sin, Should with a swelling dropsy stuff thy skin.
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.
3. To fill by being pressed or packed into.
With inward arms the dire machine they load, And iron bowels stuff the dark abode.
4. (Cookery) 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.
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.
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

Stuff , v. i. To feed gluttonously; to cram.
Taught harmless man to cram and stuff.

Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.

To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick.

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Usage Examples

All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheesemaking class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to only get me kitchen stuff on my birthday. I'm into every kind of cookbook and anything by Anthony Bourdain. I'd love to own a restaurant if I could find the right chef.

A lot of fun stuff happens when you go out on a bike compared to when you're in a car. You're more in the environment. It's enjoyable. Even when It's raining It's still fun.

A guy came to the shop every day. A lot of guys put the foam like stuff that forms to you, kinda like the Indy car guys run. He fitted it up and it felt real good, so we're going to try to run it.

All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.

All this stuff is so mind-blowing to me that I get to do in my life. Throwing the first pitch out at the White Sox game on a random Wednesday? Like who am I? How did I get this life? I'm glad I'm not jaded, and little kids are the least jaded people in the entire world, so it's fun to be around people that still find wonder in how cool things are.

An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.

And I'm very surprised that all this stuff actually worked out to where I could have a career in film, gain the benefit of my education, and be thankful that I was able to break into my craft as an actor.

Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almost because I'm not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting.

A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.

A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.

All movies aren't fun some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the '70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the '80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the '90s. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.

And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

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