Results for stuff
Definitions of stuff:
part of speech: noun
Materials of which anything is made: textile fabrics, cloth, esp. when woollen: worthless matter: ( B.) household furniture, etc.
part of speech: verb
To fill very full; to crowd; to press; to cause to swell out by putting something in; to thrust into; to fill meat with seasoning; to obstruct, as one of the organs; to fill, as the skin of a dead animal for preserving its likeness; to feed gluttonously.
part of speech: verb transitive
To fill by crowding: to fill very full: to press in: to crowd: to cause to bulge out by filling: to fill with seasoning, as a fowl: to fill the skin of a dead animal, so as to reproduce its living form.
part of speech: verb intransitive
To feed gluttonously.
part of speech: noun
The material out of which anything may be made; the fundamental part or essence; as, hero stuff; raw material; woven fabrics or cloth; household goods; refuse or waste matter; nonsense.
part of speech: noun
Any collection of substances; materials of which anything is made; the woven fabric of which clothes are made; something trifling or worthless.
part of speech: verb transitive
To fill by crowding something into; as, to stuff one's pockets; press or pack into a small space; fill with specially prepared material; as, to stuff a chicken; put dishonest votes into; as, to stuff a ballot box.
part of speech: verb intransitive
Usage examples for stuff:
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Hurry up with that stuff
"Right Ho, Jeeves", P. G. Wodehouse -
I should not be ashamed to call him so, for he must be of better stuff than I." As he finished speaking, Bartja appeared in the circle of assembled Persians.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers", Georg Ebers -
Why, of course, he says the whole story's stuff
"The Project Gutenberg Plays of John Galsworthy, Complete", John Galsworthy -
Lord, what a bore this sort of stuff is!
"Mortal Coils", Aldous Huxley