stuff

Meanings

• the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
  • "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"
• miscellaneous unspecified objects
  • "the trunk was full of stuff"
• informal terms for personal possessions
• senseless talk
  • "don't give me that stuff"
• unspecified qualities required to do or be something
  • "the stuff of heros"
  • "you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine"
• information in some unspecified form
  • "it was stuff I had heard before"
  • "there's good stuff in that book"
• a critically important or characteristic component
  • "suspense is the very stuff of narrative"
• cram into a cavity
  • "The child stuffed candy into his pockets"
• press or force
  • "Stuff money into an envelope"
• obstruct
  • "My nose is all stuffed"
• overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
  • "She stuffed herself at the dinner"
• treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting
  • "stuff a bearskin"
• fill tightly with a material
  • "stuff a pillow with feathers"
• fill with a stuffing while cooking
  • "Have you stuffed the turkey yet?"

Synonyms

binge, block, choke up, clobber, englut, engorge, farce, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, hooey, ingurgitate, lug, material, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, poppycock, satiate, scarf out, shove, squeeze, stuff and nonsense, thrust