Definitions for stuff

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Spelling: [stuhf]

IPA: /stʌf/

Stuff is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 20 anagrams from letters in stuff (ffstu).

Definitions for stuff

noun

1. the material of which anything is made:
2. material to be worked upon or to be used in making something:
3. material of some unspecified kind:
4. Chiefly British. woven material or fabric, especially wool.
5. property, as personal belongings or equipment; things.
6. something to be swallowed, as food, drink, or medicine.
7. inward character, qualities, or capabilities:
8. Informal. action or talk of a particular kind:
9. worthless things or matter: Synonyms: junk, debris, litter; refuse, waste, rubbish, trash.
10. worthless or foolish ideas, talk, or writing: Synonyms: blather, gibberish, rigmarole, nonsense, twaddle, claptrap, balderdash.
11. Sports. Baseball. the assortment of pitches that a pitcher uses in a game together with the ability to deliver them in the proper manner at the right speed to the desired spot: spin or speed imparted to a ball, as by a baseball pitcher, a bowler, or a tennis player:
12. Informal. journalistic, literary, artistic, dramatic, musical, or other compositions or performances:
13. Informal. one's trade, skill, field, facts, etc.:
14. Slang. any kind of drug, especially an illicit one.
15. Also called stock. Papermaking. refined and beaten wet pulp ready for spreading on the wire.

verb (used with object)

1. to fill (a receptacle), especially by packing the contents closely together; cram full.
2. to fill (an aperture, cavity, etc.) by forcing something into it.
3. to fill or line with some kind of material as a padding or packing.
4. to fill or cram (oneself, one's stomach, etc.) with food.
5. to fill (meat, vegetables, etc.) with seasoned bread crumbs or other savory matter.
6. to fill the preserved skin of (a dead animal) with material, retaining its natural form and appearance for display.
7. to put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).
8. to thrust or cram (something) into a receptacle, cavity, or the like. Synonyms: jam, compress, press, ram; stow.
9. to pack tightly in a confined place; crowd together.
10. to crowd (a vehicle, room, etc.) with persons.
11. to clutter or fill (the mind) with facts, details, etc.
12. (in leather manufacturing) to treat (a skin, hide, etc.) with a composition of tallow and other ingredients.
13. to stop up or plug; block or choke (usually followed by up). Synonyms: clog, obstruct.

verb (used without object)

1. to cram oneself with food; eat gluttonously; gorge.

Origin of stuff

1300-50; (v.) late Middle English stuffen to equip, furnish Old French estoffer literally, to stuff Frankish *stopfōn, *stoppōn (see stop); (noun) Middle English Old

Examples for stuff

And his worst work is better than the stuff everyone else is doing.

But he said to himself "there was stuff in her: what a woman might be made of her!"

I think all the traveling and all the nationalities put that stuff in my head.

“Sometimes the Christians are saying, ‘We need to hear explicitly Christian stuff,’” says Mineo.

There were a lot of little pieces, pieces of lead and stuff.

You can peel the stuff out of your pockets with one hand, I figure.

The best comparison here for an American audience is, well, Internet stuff.

I don't think much of his stuff, but they say he makes heaps of money.

These landscape fellows buy their stuff direct, and the middleman's out.

Add the seasonings, mix thoroughly, and stuff into the bird.