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What's The Definition Of Stuff?
[n] miscellaneous unspecified artifacts; "the trunk was full of stuff"
[n] unspecified qualities required to do or be something; "the stuff of heros"; "you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine" [n] a critically important or characteristic component; "suspense is the very stuff of narrative" [n] senseless talk; "don't give me that stuff" [n] information in some unspecified form; "it was stuff I had heard before"; "there's good stuff in that book" [n] informal terms for personal possessions; "did you take all your clobber?" [n] 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" [v] fill with a stuffing while cooking; "Have you stuffed the turkey yet?" [v] fill tightly with an appropriate material; "stuff a pillow with feathers"; "The old lady wants to have her dead poodle stuffed by the taxidermist" [v] treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting; "stuff a bearskin" [v] overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself [v] eat until one is sated; "He filled up on turkey" [v] obstruct, as of a passage; "My nose is all stuffed"; "Her arteries are blocked" [v] fill completely; "The child stuffed his pockets with candy" [v] press or force; "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand" Synonyms | Synonyms for Stuff: binge | block | choke up | clobber | englut | engorge | glut | gorge | gormandise | gormandize | gourmandize | hooey | ingurgitate | lug | material | overeat | overgorge | overindulge | pig out | poppycock | satiate | scarf out | shove | squeeze | stuff and nonsense | sundries | sundry | thrust | whatchamacallit | whatsis Related Terms | Find terms related to Stuff: See Also | abradant | abrasive | abrasive material | adhesive | adhesive material | animal material | artefact | artifact | atom | back up | bagatelle | bangle | bauble | bimetal | bric-a-brac | builder | center | charm | chemical | chock up | choke | choke off | clog | clog up | clutter | collectable | collectible | color | coloring material | colour | colouring material | composite material | conductor | congest | contaminant | contamination | core | cram | cram | curio | curiosity | detergent builder | detritus | diamagnet | dielectric | discharge | dohickey | dojigger | doodad | doohickey | duplicate | dust | earth | eat | elastomer | emission | essence | etcetera | extra | falderal | fallal | fiber | fibre | fill | fill | fill | fill | fill out | fill up | fill up | fill up | filler | filling | floc | floccule | fluff | fluff | foam | folderol | force | foul | frills | frippery | frivolity | gaud | gewgaw | gimcrackery | gimcracks | gimmick | gismo | gist | gizmo | good luck charm | ground | gubbins | HAZMAT | heart | heart and soul | hickey | hokum | homogenate | hoodoo | impregnate | impregnation | info | information | insulator | inwardness | jam | jam | jampack | je ne sais quois | keepsake | kernel | knickknack | knickknackery | knickknacks | lubricant | lubricating substance | lubricator | make full | make full | makeweight | marrow | matter | meaninglessness | meat | mess of pottage | mineral | molecule | mote | nicknack | nitty-gritty | nonconductor | nonsense | nonsense | nonsensicality | notion | notions | novelties | novelty | nub | oddity | oddment | overstuff | pack | packing | packing material | pad | paper | particle | peculiarity | personal estate | personal property | personalty | pith | plant material | private property | prize | prop | property | push | quality | radioactive material | ram | rarity | raw material | relic | rind | rock | saturate | sealing material | small beer | sorbate | sorbent | sorbent material | souvenir | speck | staple | stone | stuff | substance | substance | sum | tan | thickener | thickening | thingamabob | thingamajig | thingmabob | thingmajig | thingumabob | thingumajig | thingummy | token | toner | translucent substance | transparent substance | trifle | trinket | trivia | triviality | trophy | trumpery | vernix | vernix caseosa | wad | wadding | waste | waste material | waste matter | waste product | whatnot Stuff In Webster's Dictionary \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.
For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the
work to make it, and too much. --Ex. xxxvi.
7.
Ambitions should be made of sterner stuff. --Shak.
The workman on his stuff his skill doth show, And
yet the stuff gives not the man his skill. --Sir J.
Davies.
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. --Shak.
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? --Shak.
It [the arras] was of stuff and silk mixed, though,
superior kinds were of silk exclusively. --F. G.
Lee.
4. Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
He took away locks, and gave away the king's stuff.
--Hayward.
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. --Dryden.
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.
8. Paper stock ground ready for use.
Note: 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\, 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. Sometimes this crook drew hazel bought adown, And stuffed her apron wide with nuts so brown. --Gay. Lest the gods, for sin, Should with a swelling dropsy stuff thy skin. --Dryden. 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. --Bacon. 3. To fill by being pressed or packed into. With inward arms the dire machine they load, And iron bowels stuff the dark abode. --Dryden. 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. --Shak. 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. --Swift. 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\, v. i. To feed gluttonously; to cram. Taught harmless man to cram and stuff. --Swift. |
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