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stuff

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishstuf,stuffe, borrowed fromMedieval Latinstuffa and its etymonOld Frenchestofe,estoffe,estuf,estuffe,stoffe,[1] fromestoffer,estofer(“to provide what is necessary, equip, stuff”), borrowed fromOld High Germanstoffōn, fromProto-West Germanic*stoppōn(“to clog up, block, fill”).[2][3] More atstop.

Noun

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stuff (usuallyuncountable,pluralstuffs)

  1. (informal)Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive)personal effects.
    What is all thatstuff on your bedroom floor? He didn't want his pockets to bulge so he was walking around with all hisstuff in his hands.
    1. (obsolete,uncountable) Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
      • 1611,Bible, 1 Samuel 25:13, KJV:
        and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by thestuff.
      • 1630,John Hayward,The Life and Raigne of King Edward VI:
        He took away locks, and gave away the king'sstuff.
  2. (informal) Unspecified things or matters.
    I had to do somestuff.
  3. The tangiblesubstance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
    Synonyms:matter,ingredients,constituents;see alsoThesaurus:substance
    • 1697,John Davies,A Poem on the Immortality of the Soul:
      The workman on hisstuff his skill doth show, / And yet thestuff gives not the man his skill.
    • 1887,Indian Cookery "Local" for Young Housekeepers: Second Edition, page67:
      Pound an onion, warm a spoonful of ghee and throw in the onion, brown it slightly, add your currystuff, brown this till it smells pleasantly,[…]
    1. (archaic) A material for makingclothing; any woventextile, but especially awoollen fabric.
      • 1834,L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, inFrancesca Carrara. […], volume III, London:Richard Bentley, […], (successor toHenry Colburn),→OCLC,page51:
        Without waiting for a reply, she unbound the veil from her head, and took off the loose black novice's robe, which she had put over a graystuff dress similar to that worn by Lucy.
      • 1857,The National Magazine, volumes 10-11, page350:
        "And you can buy a dress for your wife off this piece ofstuff," said Lisetta, who had always an eye to business.
      • 1992, Hilary Mantel,A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, page147:
        She was going out to buy some lengths of good woollenstuff for Louise's winter dresses.
    2. (archaic)Boards used forbuilding.
    3. Abstract/figurative substance orcharacter.
    4. Paperstock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is calledhalf stuff.[4]
  4. (informal)Used as placeholder, usually formaterial of unknown type or name.
    Synonyms:doodad,thingamabob;see alsoThesaurus:thingy
    Can I have some of thatstuff on my ice-cream sundae?
    • 1935,George Goodchild, chapter 3, inDeath on the Centre Court:
      It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless.[…]You stand by, Janet, and wake me up if they do any of that running commentarystuff.”
    • 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, inThe Economist‎[1], volume408, number8847:
      The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although thestuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).
  5. (slang)Narcoticdrugs, especiallyheroin.
    Synonyms:dope,gear;see alsoThesaurus:recreational drug
    • 1947, William Burroughs,letter, 11 March:
      For some idiotic reason the bureaucrats are more opposed to tea than tostuff.
    • 1975, Mary Sanches, Ben G. Blount,Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Use, page47:
      For example, one addict would crack shorts (break and enter cars) and usually obtain just enough stolen goods to buystuff and get off just before getting sick.
  6. (obsolete) Amedicine ormixture; apotion.
  7. (sometimeseuphemistic) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language.
    Synonyms:garbage,rubbish,nonsense,stuff and nonsense;see alsoThesaurus:trash,Thesaurus:nonsense
    Don't give me any of that 'what-about'stuff!
  8. (nautical) A melted mass ofturpentine,tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared forlubrication.
    • 1785,Pamphlets on British Shipping. 1785-1861, page36:
      The master, at my earnest solicitation, examined his vessel, and though he prefers the coal tar, yet he told me, there were shells sticking on, and that a very thin coat ofstuff, if any, remained.
    • 1822, William Annesley,A New System of Naval Architecture, page31:
      On the last transverse planking, after: caulking and paying, he has laid on a coat ofstuff, so hard when cold aš to resist a firm touch, and applied plain paper, then took heated band irons (such as women use) , and passed the iron from the centre of the sheet to the extremities, thus heating thestuff to make it adhere, pressing out the air, and laying it all flat and united with the course.
    • 2012, Thomas Williams,American Honor: The Story of Admiral Charles Stewart, page561:
      While the ships were placed in ordinary “a thick coat ofstuff” was applied to the hulls, and their awnings might be spread or sheds erected to provide some protection from sun and weather.
  9. (slang, criminal argot,dated)Money.
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  • The textile sense is increasingly specialized and sounds dated in everyday contexts. In the UK and Commonwealth it designates the cloth from which legal and academic gowns are made, except for the gowns of Queen's/King's/State Counsel, which are (often in contradistinction) made ofsilk.
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Translations
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miscellaneous items; things
the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
word substituted for material of unknown type or name, placeholder name—see alsothingy
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Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishstuffen(“to equip, furnish”), borrowed fromOld Frenchestoffer,estofer(“to provide what is necessary, equip, stuff”), borrowed fromOld High Germanstoffōn, fromProto-West Germanic*stoppōn(“to clog up, block, fill”). More atstop.

Verb

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stuff (third-person singular simple presentstuffs,present participlestuffing,simple past and past participlestuffed)

  1. (transitive) Tofill by packing or crowding something into; tocram with something; to load to excess.
    I'm going tostuff this pillow with feathers.
  2. (transitive) Tofill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
    Hestuffed his clothes into the closet and shut the door.
    • 1627 (indicated as1626),Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, inSylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London:[…]William Rawley […];[p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […],→OCLC:
      Put them [roses] into a[…] glass, with narrow mouths,stuffing them close together[…] and [they] retain[…] smell[…][and] colour.
    • 1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, inHarper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company,→ISSN,→OCLC:
      The Rabbit could not claim to be a model of anything, for he didn’t know that real rabbits existed; he thought they were allstuffed with sawdust like himself, and he understood that sawdust was quite out-of-date and should never be mentioned in modern circles.
    • 2004,Orson Scott Card,The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Book Six, Tom Doherty Associates,→ISBN,page241:
      It's our life you're taking, you're making us poor, you have no right, these slaves are ours, until Marie wanted to fill their mouths with cotton, all the cotton that had ever been picked by their slaves, juststuff it down their mouths until they were as fat and soft as the huge pillows they slept on while their slaves slept on hard boards and straw in filthy rat-infested cabins.
    • 2007,Iceland Review, H.J. Hamar,page227:
      You can't juststuff it in a vault somewhere and cross your fingers.
    • 2011, Shirley G. East,The Dream Hunters Epoch: The Paleo Indians Series, Xlibris Corporation,→ISBN,page528:
      “I will sort this stuff out and repack it.” “No time! Juststuff it inside baskets and shove them to the back. We can sort through it all later.”
  3. (transitive,cooking) To fill withseasoning.
    Shestuffed the turkey for Thanksgiving using her secret recipe.
  4. (transitive) To load goods into (acontainer) for transport.
  5. (transitive, used in the passive) Tosate.
    I’mstuffed after having eaten all that turkey, mashed potatoes and delicious stuffing.
  6. (pronominal) Toeat, especially in ahearty orgreedy manner.
    Synonyms:fill one's face,feed one's face,stuff one's face
    She sits on the sofa all day, watching TV andstuffing herself with cream buns.
  7. (transitive,British,Australia,New Zealand) Tobreak; todestroy.
    He skidded off the road and totallystuffed his brand new car.
  8. (transitive,vulgar,British,Australia,New Zealand) Tosexuallypenetrate.
    Synonyms:fuck,root,screw
    His wife came home early and found him on the couchstuffing the maid.
  9. (transitive, mildly vulgar, often imperative)Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something.See alsostuff it.
    Stuff your stupid rules, I'll do what I like.
    • 2009, Matthew Hall,The Coroner, Pan Macmillan,→ISBN,page218:
      Jenny nodded in sympathy, spotting Ali's new iPod speakers sitting on top of the TV. Simone smiled and coughed. 'He forgot to take them with him. He canstuff it, it was my money.'
    • 2009, Tom Holt,Here Comes The Sun, Hachette UK,→ISBN,page80:
      'Well,' she said, 'you can take your job and you canstuff it, because...' She stopped dead. 'My God,' she whispered, 'I've been wanting to say that to somebody all my life, and now I actually have. Whee!' She pulled herself together, straightened her back and picked up her handbag. 'Sorry,' she said, 'but I'm through.'
    • 2015, Chris Dunning,About a Village Boy: A memoir, Troubador Publishing,→ISBN,page91:
      And it rained everyday[sic] and the seas were rough everyday and I felt ill everyday and I thought, if this is sailing you canstuff it!
  10. (informal) To heavily defeat or get the better of.
    Mudchester Rovers werestuffed 7–0 in the semi-final.
    They totallystuffed us in that business deal.
  11. (transitive) Tocut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.
    I gotstuffed by that guy on the supermoto going into that turn, almost causing us to crash.
  12. Topreserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
  13. (transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
  14. (transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
    • 1724,Jonathan Swift, “Drapier's Letters”, in5:
      An Eastern king put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence, and ordered his hide to bestuffed into a cushion, and placed upon the tribunal.
  15. (transitive,dated) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
  16. (transitive,computing) Tocompress (afile or files) in theStuffIt format, to beunstuffed later.
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Translations
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to fill by crowding into
to fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner
to fill with seasoning
to be sated
to make sated
to eat in a hearty or greedy manner
to break
vulgar: to sexually penetrate
to cut off in a race
to preserve a dead animal
to obstruct the organs of sense or respiration
to form or fashion by packing with the necessary material
to cram the mind of
computing: to compress in the StuffIt format
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References

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  1. ^“stuf(fe,n.”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007.
  2. ^“stuff,n.1”, inOED Online ⁠, Oxford:Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
  3. ^Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “stuff (n.)”, inOnline Etymology Dictionary.
  4. ^Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Stuff”, inKnight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes III (REA–ZYM), New York, N.Y.:Hurd and Houghton […],→OCLC.

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