stuff

Meaning

Noun

1. (informal, uncountable, usually) Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.
2. (informal, obsolete, uncountable, usually) Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.
3. (informal, uncountable, usually) Unspecified things or matters.
4. (uncountable, usually) The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
5. (archaic, uncountable, usually) The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
6. (archaic, uncountable, usually) The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
7. (uncountable, usually) The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
8. (uncountable, usually) The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
9. (informal, uncountable, usually) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
10. (slang, uncountable, usually) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
11. (obsolete, uncountable, usually) A medicine or mixture; a potion.
12. (euphemistic, sometimes, uncountable, usually) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language.
13. (uncountable, usually) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
14. (dated, slang, uncountable, usually) Money.

Verb

1. (transitive) To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
2. (transitive) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
3. (transitive) To fill with seasoning.
4. (transitive) To load goods into (a container) for transport.
5. (transitive) To sate.
6. (pronominal) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
7. (Australia, British, New-Zealand, transitive) To break; to destroy.
8. (Australia, British, New-Zealand, transitive, vulgar) To sexually penetrate.
9. (imperative, mildly, often, transitive, vulgar) Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it.
10. (informal) To heavily defeat or get the better of.
11. (transitive) To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.
12. To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
13. (transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
14. (transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
15. (dated, transitive) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
16. (transitive) To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.

Synonyms

cram

material

fill

matter

things

belongings

substance

goods

pack

thrust

block

thing

shove

fill up

stop up

squeeze

jam

ram

🐏

stick

plug

gorge

compress

pack in

pad

press

clog

tamp

crowd

stock

junk

farce

push

glut

pig out

cloth

object

stopper

engorge

rubbish

satiate

ingurgitate

binge

put

possessions

congest

hooey

ingredients

fill in

feed

fabric

Translations

bourrer

stopfen

rellenar

roba

fourrer

Zeug

Stoff

truc

stoffa

material

imbottire

vullen

matière

riempire

boucher

Pronounced as (IPA)

/stʌf/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: stuffen

In summary

From Middle English stuf, stuffe, borrowed from Medieval Latin stuffa and its etymon Old French estofe, estoffe, estuf, estuffe, stoffe, from estoffer, estofer (“to provide what is necessary, equip, stuff”), borrowed from Old High German stoffōn, from Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn (“to clog up, block, fill”). More at stop.

Sentences

She wrote the stuff .

That's the kind of stuff they want .

I don't think it's very ethical reading other people's stuff .