Definition of Stuff

Noun: stuff  stúf

  1. The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
    "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread";
    - material
     
  2. Miscellaneous unspecified objects
    "the trunk was full of stuff"
     
  3. Informal term for personal possessions
    "did you take all your stuff?";
    - clobber [Brit]
     
  4. Senseless talk
    "don't give me that stuff";
    - stuff and nonsense, hooey [N. Amer], poppycock, bollocks [Brit]
     
  5. Unspecified qualities required to do or be something
    "the stuff of heros"; "you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine"
     
  6. Information in some unspecified form
    "it was stuff I had heard before"; "there's good stuff in that book"
     
  7. A critically important or characteristic component
    "suspense is the very stuff of narrative"
Verb: stuff  stúf
  1. Cram into a cavity
    "The child stuffed candy into his pockets"
     
  2. Press or force
    "Stuff money into an envelope";
    - thrust, shove, squeeze
     
  3. Obstruct
    "My nose is all stuffed";
    - lug, choke up, block
     
  4. Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
    "She stuffed herself at the dinner";
    - gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise [Brit], gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, gourmandise [Brit]
     
  5. Treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting
    "stuff a bearskin"
     
  6. Fill tightly with a material
    "stuff a pillow with feathers"
     
  7. (cooking) fill with a stuffing while cooking
    "Have you stuffed the turkey yet?";
    - farce

See also:
studying
stuffed

Anagrams containing the word stuff

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