stuff

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

1. To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
2. To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
3. To fill with seasoning.
4. To load goods into (a container) for transport.
5. To sate.
6. To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
7. To break; to destroy.
8. To sexually penetrate.
9. Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it.
10. (informal) To heavily defeat or get the better of.
11. 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. To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
14. To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
15. To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
16. To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.

Synonyms

cram

material

fill

things

matter

belongings

substance

pack

goods

thrust

thing

block

fill up

shove

stop up

jam

squeeze

ram

🐏

stick

plug

junk

crowd

stock

tamp

clog

pad

gorge

compress

press

pack in

farce

glut

object

stopper

cloth

push

engorge

rubbish

pig out

binge

line

stop

🛑

ingredients

ingurgitate

congest

satiate

fabric

data

choke

lug

stow

choke up

fill in

wad

overgorge

feed

scarf out

load

hooey

put

baggage

possessions

something

gormandise

gourmandize

household articles

household effects

case

stuff and nonsense

put away

put in

waste

articles

litter

ingredient

insert

materials

balderdash

clobber

fulfill

scrap

affair

nonsense

thingamajig

obstruct

lumber

article

belonging

tools

odds and ends

block up

overcrowd

overeat

trash

overindulge

item

charge

tuck

gormandize

twaddle

upholster

piffle

business

drool

jam in

household

poppycock

cane

fatten

element

englut

place

plow

plunge

poke

potential

prime

private property

property

puff

push along

question

❓

raven

raw material

raw materials

replete

root

rot

satisfy

schlock

screen

screw

seal

🦭

sheathe

shit

💩

shoot

shoulder

sink

sleaze

slide

speech

stab

stamp

stanch

staunch

stem

stopple

stores

stuck

stuffing

subject

suit

sundries

sundry

surcharge

surfeit

talent

tampon

tap

taradiddle

taxidermy

textile

thingy

throng

timber

tommyrot

top off

totaled

tuck away

traps

trashy

treasure

trousseau

truck

🚚

trumpery

tuck in

turn

useless

utensils

web

weft

whatchamacallit

whisky

wolf

🐺

words

work

worthless

X

blatherskite

bung up

cram in

fress

seal up

thingamabob

make full

whatsis

Irish bull

tarradiddle

silly talk

skill and spirit combined

fill full

basic nature

ramshackle furniture

Cheviot

shlock

shoulder in

thingmabob

raw stuff

rough material

stuff full

ne’er do well

contend in

back-up sand

crude material

input material

good

👍

filler sand

action

bag

baloney

bar

blockade

block off

body

boloney

bone

🦴

bootless

bull

bullshit

bung

cargo

cash

💸

character

charging

chock

claptrap

close

clothes

club

codswallop

commodity

complete

concrete

content

copy

cork

crap

crock

crud

crumple

cushion

debris

devour

dig

discharge

dishes

doodad

dope

dose

drench

drill

drivel

drossy

dud

embalm

embed

enclose

enter

equipment

essence

fiddlesticks

figment

filling

fill out

flood

fornicate

fuck

👉👌

fulfil

gadget

gaff

gear

⚙️

gluttonize

gobble

gobble up

goods and chattels

guff

halt

has-been

hokum

idle talk

imbue

impel

implements

impregnate

inflate

inflation

infuse

ingot

introduce

issue

jazz

job

kit

land up

live up to

look down

luggage

🧳

make out

making

makings

man

👨

meet

merchandise

money

💸

moonshine

nail

needless

nudge

objects

occlude

occupy

otiose

overstuff

padding

percale

physical

pig

🐖

Pronounced as (IPA)

/stʌf/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: stuffen

In summary

From Middle English stuffen (“to equip, furnish”), borrowed from Old French 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 .