1.  stuff(n = noun.substance) material - 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"
is a kind of substance
has particulars: ballast, bedding, bedding material, litter, rind, precursor, atom, corpuscle, molecule, mote, particle, speck, ammunition, floc, floccule, hazmat, aggregate, raw material, staple, sorbate, sorbent, sorbent material, diamagnet, mineral, rock, stone, adhesive, adhesive agent, adhesive material, sealing material, animal material, fluff, bimetal, abradant, abrasive, abrasive material, chemical, chemical substance, composite material, conductor, dielectric, insulator, nonconductor, contaminant, contamination, particulate, particulate matter, dust, elastomer, earth, ground, discharge, emission, detritus, waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product, fiber, fibre, fill, filling, foam, homogenate, humate, impregnation, paper, packing, packing material, wadding, color, coloring material, colour, colouring material, plant material, plant substance, radioactive material, thickener, thickening, toner, translucent substance, transparent substance, undercut, builder, detergent builder, vernix, vernix caseosa, wad

2.  stuff(n = noun.artifact) - miscellaneous unspecified objects; "the trunk was full of stuff"
is a kind of object, physical object
has particulars: doodad, doohickey, doojigger, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget, etcetera, sundries

3.  stuff(n = noun.possession) clobber - informal terms for personal possessions; "did you take all your clobber?"
is a kind of personal estate, personal property, personalty, private property

4.  stuff(n = noun.communication) hooey, poppycock, stuff and nonsense - senseless talk; "don't give me that stuff"
is a kind of bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality

5.  stuff(n = noun.attribute) - unspecified qualities required to do or be something; "the stuff of heros"; "you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine"
is a kind of quality

6.  stuff(n = noun.communication) - information in some unspecified form; "it was stuff I had heard before"; "there's good stuff in that book"
is a kind of info, information

7.  stuff(n = noun.cognition) - a critically important or characteristic component; "suspense is the very stuff of narrative"
is a kind of center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum

1.  stuff(v = verb.contact) - cram into a cavity; "The child stuffed candy into his pockets"
is one way to cram
Sample sentences: They stuff the cart with boxes

2.  stuff(v = verb.motion) shove, squeeze, thrust - press or force; "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand"
is one way to force, push
Sample sentences: They stuff the books into the box

3.  stuff(v = verb.contact) block, choke up, lug - obstruct; "My nose is all stuffed"; "Her arteries are blocked"
is one way to back up, choke, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, foul
Antonym: unstuff
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

4.  stuff(v = verb.consumption) binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out - overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream"
is one way to eat
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s PP

5.  stuff(v = verb.change) - treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting; "stuff a bearskin"
is one way to impregnate, saturate
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

6.  stuff(v = verb.change) - fill tightly with a material; "stuff a pillow with feathers"
is one way to fill, fill up, make full
Derived form noun stuffer₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP; Somebody ----s something with something

7.  stuff(v = verb.change) farce - fill with a stuffing while cooking; "Have you stuffed the turkey yet?"
is one way to fill, fill up, make full
Derived form noun stuffing₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP; Somebody ----s something with something

1.  Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture. [1913 Webster]
"For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much." [1913 Webster]
"Ambitions should be made of sterner stuff." [1913 Webster]
"The workman on his stuff his skill doth show,
And yet the stuff gives not the man his skill." [1913 Webster]

2.  The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence. [1913 Webster]
"Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience
To do no contrived murder." [1913 Webster]

3.  Woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind; specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber. [1913 Webster]
"What stuff wilt have a kirtle of?" [1913 Webster]
"It [the arras] was of stuff and silk mixed, though, superior kinds were of silk exclusively." [1913 Webster]

4.  Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils. [1913 Webster]
"He took away locks, and gave away the king's stuff." [1913 Webster]

5.  A medicine or mixture; a potion. Shak. [1913 Webster]

6.  Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash. [1913 Webster]
"Anger would indite
Such woeful stuff as I or Shadwell write." [1913 Webster]

7.  A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication. [1913 Webster]

8.  Paper stock ground ready for use. [1913 Webster]
" When partly ground, called half stuff." Knight. [1913 Webster]

1.  To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick. [1913 Webster]
"Sometimes this crook drew hazel bought adown,
And stuffed her apron wide with nuts so brown." [1913 Webster]
"Lest the gods, for sin,
Should with a swelling dropsy stuff thy skin." [1913 Webster]

2.  To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack. [1913 Webster]
"Put roses into a glass with a narrow mouth, stuffing them close together . . . and they retain smell and color." [1913 Webster]

3.  To fill by being pressed or packed into. [1913 Webster]
"With inward arms the dire machine they load,
And iron bowels stuff the dark abode." [1913 Webster]

4.  To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey. [1913 Webster]

5.  To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration. [1913 Webster]
"I'm stuffed, cousin; I can not smell." [1913 Webster]

6.  To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; -- said of birds or other animals. [1913 Webster]

7.  To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material. [1913 Webster]
"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." [1913 Webster]

8.  To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies. [1913 Webster]

9.  To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box). [1913 Webster]

   To feed gluttonously; to cram. [1913 Webster]
"Taught harmless man to cram and stuff." [1913 Webster]

stuff, n. & v.
--n.
1 the material that a thing is made of; material that may be used for some purpose.
2 a substance or things or belongings of an indeterminate kind or a quality not needing to be specified (there's a lot of stuff about it in the newspapers).
3 a particular knowledge or activity (know one's stuff).
4 woollen fabric (esp. as distinct from silk, cotton, and linen).
5 valueless matter, trash, refuse, nonsense (take that stuff away).
6 (prec. by the) a colloq. an available supply of something, esp. drink or drugs. b sl. money.
--v.
1 tr. pack (a receptacle) tightly (stuff a cushion with feathers; a head stuffed with weird notions).
2 tr. (foll. by in, into) force or cram (a thing) (stuffed the socks in the drawer).
3 tr. fill out the skin of (an animal or bird etc.) with material to restore the original shape (a stuffed owl).
4 tr. fill (poultry etc.) with a savoury or sweet mixture, esp. before cooking.
5 a tr. & refl. fill (a person or oneself) with food. b tr. & intr. eat greedily.
6 tr. push, esp. hastily or clumsily (stuffed the note behind the cushion).
7 tr. (usu. in passive; foll. by up) block up (a person's nose etc.).
8 tr. sl. (esp. as an expression of contemptuous dismissal) dispose of as unwanted (you can stuff the job).
9 tr. US place bogus votes in (a ballot-box).
10 tr. coarse sl. offens. have sexual intercourse with (a woman).

Idiom:
bit of stuff sl. offens. a woman regarded as an object of sexual desire. do one's stuff colloq. do what one has to. get stuffed sl. an exclamation of dismissal, contempt, etc. stuff and nonsense an exclamation of incredulity or ridicule. stuffed shirt colloq. a pompous person. stuff gown Brit. a gown worn by a barrister who has not taken silk. stuff it sl. an expression of rejection or disdain. that's the stuff colloq. that is what is wanted.

Derivative:
stuffer n. (also in comb.).

Etymology:
ME stoffe f. OF estoffe (n.), estoffer (v.) equip, furnish f. Gk stupho draw together

N  substantiality, hypostasis, person, being, thing, object, article, item, something, a being, an existence, creature, body, substance, flesh and blood, stuff, substratum, matter, corporeity, element, essential nature, groundwork, materiality, substantialness, vital part, world, plenum, substantive, substantial, hypostatic, personal, bodily, tangible, corporeal, substantially, bodily, essentially.

N  materials, material, raw material, stuff, stock, staple, adobe, brown stone, chinking, clapboard, daubing, puncheon, shake, shingle, bricks and mortar, metal, stone, clay, brick crockery, compo, composition, concrete, reinforced concrete, cement, wood, ore, timber, materials, supplies, munition, fuel, grist, household stuff pabulum, ammunition, contingents, relay, reinforcement, reenforcement, baggage, means, calico, cambric, cashmere, raw, wooden, adobe.

N  unimportance, insignificance, nothingness, immateriality, triviality, levity, frivolity, paltriness, poverty, smallness, vanity, matter of indifference, no object, nothing, nothing to signify, nothing worth speaking of, nothing particular, nothing to boast of, nothing to speak of, small matter, no great matter, trifling matter, mere joke, mere nothing, hardly anything, scarcely anything, nonentity, small beer, cipher, no great shakes, peu de chose, child's play, kinderspiel, toy, plaything, popgun, paper pellet, gimcrack, gewgaw, bauble, trinket, bagatelle, Rickshaw, knickknack, whim-wham, trifle, trifles light as air, yankee notions, trumpery, trash, rubbish, stuff, fatras, frippery, leather or prunello, chaff, drug, froth bubble smoke, cobweb, weed, refuse, scum, joke, jest, snap of the fingers, fudge, fiddlestick, fiddlestick end, pack of nonsense, mere farce, straw, pin, fig, button, rush, bulrush, feather, halfpenny, farthing, brass farthing, doit, peppercorn, jot, rap, pinch of snuff, old son, cent, mill, picayune, pistareen, red cent, minutiae, details, minor details, small fry, dust in the balance, feather in the scale, drop in the ocean, flea-bite, molehill, nine days' wonder, ridiculus mus, flash in the pan, much ado about nothing, unimportant, of little account, of small account, of no account, of little importance, of no importance, immaterial, unessential, nonessential, indifferent, subordinate, mediocre, passable, fair, respectable, tolerable, commonplace, uneventful, mere, common, ordinary, inconsiderable, so-so, insignificant, inappreciable, trifling, trivial, slight, slender, light, flimsy, frothy, idle, puerile, airy, shallow, weak, powerless, frivolous, petty, niggling, piddling, peddling, fribble, inane, ridiculous, farcical, finical, finikin, fiddle-faddle, fingle-fangle, namby-pamby, wishy-washy, milk and water, poor, paltry, pitiful, contemptible, sorry, mean, meager, shabby, miserable, wretched, vile, scrubby, scrannel, weedy, niggardly, scurvy, putid, beggarly, worthless, twopennyhalfpenny, cheap, trashy, catchpenny, gimcrack, trumpery, one- horse, not worth the pains, not worth while, not worth mentioning, not worth speaking of, not worth a thought, not worth a curse, not worth a straw, beneath notice, unworthy of notice, beneath regard, unworthy of regard, beneath consideration, unworthy of consideration, de lana caprina, vain, slightly, rather, somewhat, pretty well, tolerably, for aught one cares, Int, no matter!, pish!, tush!, tut!, pshaw!, pugh!, pooh, pooh-pooh!, fudge!, bosh!, humbug!, fiddlestick, fiddlestick end!, fiddlededee!, never mind!, n'importe!, what signifies it, what boots it, what of it, what of that, what matter, what's the odds, a fig for', stuff!, nonsense!, stuff and nonsense, magno conatu magnas nugas, le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle, it matters not, it does not signify, it is of no consequence, it is of no importance, elephantus non capit murem, tempete dans un verre d'eau.

N  gluttony, greed, avarice, greediness, voracity, epicurism, good living, high living, edacity, gulosity, crapulence, guttling, guzzling, pantophagy, good cheer, blow out, feast, gastronomy, batterie de cuisine, epicure, bon vivant, gourmand, glutton, cormorant, hog, belly god, Apicius, gastronome, gourmet, v, gormandize, gorge, overgorge, overeat oneself, engorge, eat one's fill, cram, stuff, guttle, guzzle, bolt, devour, gobble up, gulp, raven, eat out of house and home, have the stomach of an ostrich, play a good knife and fork, pamper, gluttonous, greedy, gormandizing, edacious, omnivorous, crapulent, swinish, avaricious, selfish, pampered, overfed, overgorged, jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.

VB  become larger &c (large), expand, widen, enlarge, extend, grow, increase, incrassate, swell, gather, fill out, deploy, take open order, dilate, stretch, distend, spread, mantle, wax, grow up, spring up, bud, bourgeon, shoot, sprout, germinate, put forth, vegetate, pullulate, open, burst forth, gain flesh, gather flesh, outgrow, spread like wildfire, overrun, be larger than, surpass, render larger &c (large), expand, spread, extend, aggrandize, distend, develop, amplify, spread out, widen, magnify, rarefy, inflate, puff, blow up, stuff, pad, cram, exaggerate, fatten.

VB  line, stuff, incrust, wad, pad, fill.

N  materiality, materialness, corporeity, corporality, substantiality, substantialness, flesh and blood, plenum, physical condition, matter, body, substance, brute matter, stuff, element, principle, parenchyma, material, substratum, hyle, corpus, pabulum, frame, object, article, thing, something, still life, stocks and stones, materials, physics, somatology, somatics, natural philosophy, experimental philosophy, physicism, physical science, philosophie positive, materialism, materialist, physicist, somatism, somatist, material, bodily, corporeal, corporal, physical, somatic, somatoscopic, sensible, tangible, ponderable, palpable, substantial, objective, impersonal, nonsubjective, neuter, unspiritual, materialistic.

N  texture, structure (form), organization, anatomy, frame, mold, fabric, construction, framework, carcass, architecture, stratification, cleavage, substance, stuff, compages, parenchyma, constitution, staple, organism, organography, osteology, myology, splanchnology, neurology, angiography, adeology, angiography, adenography, texture, surface texture, intertexture, contexture, tissue, grain, web, surface, warp and woof, warp and weft, tooth, nap, flatness (smoothness), fineness of grain, coarseness of grain, dry goods, silk, satin, muslin, burlap, histology, structural, organic, anatomic, anatomical, textural, textile, fine grained, coarse grained, fine, delicate, subtile, gossamery, filmy, silky, satiny, coarse, homespun, rough, gritty, smooth, smooth as silk, smooth as satin.

N  absurdity, absurdness, imbecility alogy, nonsense, utter nonsense, paradox, inconsistency, stultiloquy, stultiloquence, nugacity, blunder, muddle, bull, Irishism, Hibernicism, slipslop, anticlimax, bathos, sophism, farce, galimathias, amphigouri, rhapsody, farrago, betise, extravagance, romance, sciamachy, sell, pun, verbal quibble, macaronic, jargon, fustian, twaddle, gibberish, exaggeration, moonshine, stuff, mare's nest, quibble, self- delusion, vagary, tomfoolery, poppycock, mummery, monkey trick, boutade, escapade, absurd, nonsensical, preposterous, egregious, senseless, inconsistent, ridiculous, extravagant, quibbling, self-annulling, self- contradictory, macaronic, punning, foolish sophistical, unmeaning, without rhyme or reason, fantastic, Int, fiddlededee!, pish!, pho!, in the name of the Prophet--figs!, credat Judaeus Apella, tell it to the marines.

N  meaninglessness, unmeaningness, scrabble, empty sound, dead letter, vox et praeterea nihil, a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing, sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal, nonsense, utter nonsense, gibberish, jargon, jabber, mere words, hocus-pocus, fustian, rant, bombast, balderdash, palaver, flummery, verbiage, babble, baverdage, baragouin, platitude, niaiserie, inanity, flap-doodle, rigmarole, rodomontade, truism, nugae canorae, twaddle, twattle, fudge, trash, garbage, humbug, poppy-cock, stuff, stuff and nonsense, bosh, rubbish, moonshine, wish-wash, fiddle- faddle, absurdity, vagueness, boilerplate, clich_¬, unmeaning, meaningless, senseless, nonsensical, void of sense, inexpressive, unexpressive, vacant, not significant, insignificant, trashy, washy, trumpery, trivial, fiddle-faddle, twaddling, quibbling, unmeant, not expressed, tacit, inexpressible, undefinable, incommunicable.

create from raw stuff, hard stuff, hot stuff, real stuff, small stuff, sob stuff, split stuff, stuff and nonsense, stuff shot