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Stuff   /stəf/   Listen
Stuff

noun
1.
The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.  Synonym: material.  "Wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"
2.
Miscellaneous unspecified objects.
3.
Informal terms for personal possessions.  Synonym: clobber.
4.
Senseless talk.  Synonyms: hooey, poppycock, stuff and nonsense.
5.
Unspecified qualities required to do or be something.  "You don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine"
6.
Information in some unspecified form.  "There's good stuff in that book"
7.
A critically important or characteristic component.
verb
(past & past part. stuffed; pres. part. stuffing)
1.
Cram into a cavity.
2.
Press or force.  Synonyms: shove, squeeze, thrust.  "She thrust the letter into his hand"
3.
Obstruct.  Synonyms: block, choke up, lug.  "Her arteries are blocked"
4.
Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself.  Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out.  "The kids binged on ice cream"
5.
Treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting.
6.
Fill tightly with a material.
7.
Fill with a stuffing while cooking.  Synonym: farce.



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"Stuff" Quotes from Famous Books



... making a new creature of you, that is very evident. I haven't yet discovered whether it is the air or some magic herb among that green stuff you are gathering so diligently;" and Emily laughed to see the color deepen beautifully in her ...
— Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories • Louisa M. Alcott
... the chaffering darkies I pass to the sidewalk's end, Through the smiling gingham bonnets With their small farm-stuff to vend. ...
— More Songs From Vagabondia • Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey
... the stuff of each new day The loving hand of Time shall make Garments of joy and peace for all, And human hearts shall cease to ache. M. ...
— Life and Conduct • J. Cameron Lees
... alongside of it, till he came to the fountain-head. Having looked about him to see where the damsel was, he espied her above a piece of water, like sunbeams threaded on a needle, and she was embroidering at a frame on stuff, the threads of which were young men's hair. As soon as he saw her, he made a reverence to her, and she stood on her feet and questioned him: "Whence are you, unknown young man?" But he held his tongue. She questioned ...
— Folk Tales Every Child Should Know • Various
... returned home with innumerable fads—but no system. Everything of the fantastic has been copied, but no foundations have been laid; with the result that England's educational system to-day resembles a piece of patchwork containing a rich variety of colours and a still greater variety of stuff-quality. It were better for us to have done with educationists who preach about 'the rigid uniformity of system which is alien both to the English temperament and to the lines on which English public schools ...
— What Germany Thinks - The War as Germans see it • Thomas F. A. Smith


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