'Stuff' definitions:

Definition of 'stuff'

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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" [syn: material, stuff]
noun
Miscellaneous unspecified objects; "the trunk was full of stuff"
noun
Informal terms for personal possessions; "did you take all your clobber?" [syn: stuff, clobber]
noun
Senseless talk; "don't give me that stuff" [syn: stuff, stuff and nonsense, hooey, poppycock]
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
Information in some unspecified form; "it was stuff I had heard before"; "there's good stuff in that book"
noun
A critically important or characteristic component; "suspense is the very stuff of narrative"
verb
Cram into a cavity; "The child stuffed candy into his pockets"
verb
Press or force; "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand" [syn: thrust, stuff, shove, squeeze]
verb
Obstruct; "My nose is all stuffed"; "Her arteries are blocked" [syn: stuff, lug, choke up, block] [ant: loosen up, unstuff]
verb
Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream" [syn: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out]
verb
Treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting; "stuff a bearskin"
verb
Fill tightly with a material; "stuff a pillow with feathers"
verb
Fill with a stuffing while cooking; "Have you stuffed the turkey yet?" [syn: farce, stuff]

Definition of 'Stuff'

From: GCIDE
  • Stuff \Stuff\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stuffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Stuffing.] [OE. stoffen; cf. OF. estoffer, F. ['e]toffer, to put stuff in, to stuff, to line, also, OF. estouffer to stifle, F. ['e]touffer; 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Sometimes this crook drew hazel bought adown, And stuffed her apron wide with nuts so brown. --Gay. [1913 Webster]
  • Lest the gods, for sin, Should with a swelling dropsy stuff thy skin. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack. [1913 Webster]
  • Put roses into a glass with a narrow mouth, stuffing them close together . . . and they retain smell and color. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To fill by being pressed or packed into. [1913 Webster]
  • With inward arms the dire machine they load, And iron bowels stuff the dark abode. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Cookery) To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration. [1913 Webster]
  • I'm stuffed, cousin; I can not smell. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; -- said of birds or other animals. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies. [1913 Webster]
  • 9. To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box). [U. S.] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Stuff'

From: GCIDE
  • Stuff \Stuff\, n. [OF. estoffe, F. ['e]toffe; 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. [1913 Webster]
  • For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much. --Ex. xxxvi. 7. [1913 Webster]
  • Ambitions should be made of sterner stuff. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • The workman on his stuff his skill doth show, And yet the stuff gives not the man his skill. --Sir J. Davies. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence. [1913 Webster]
  • Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience To do no contrived murder. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind; specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber. [1913 Webster]
  • What stuff wilt have a kirtle of? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • It [the arras] was of stuff and silk mixed, though, superior kinds were of silk exclusively. --F. G. Lee. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils. [1913 Webster]
  • He took away locks, and gave away the king's stuff. --Hayward. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. A medicine or mixture; a potion. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash. [1913 Webster]
  • Anger would indite Such woeful stuff as I or Shadwell write. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. (Naut.) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. Paper stock ground ready for use. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: When partly ground, called half stuff. --Knight. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Stuff'

From: GCIDE
  • Stuff \Stuff\, v. i. To feed gluttonously; to cram. [1913 Webster]
  • Taught harmless man to cram and stuff. --Swift. [1913 Webster]