stuff
stuff is a 5-letter English word with 32 senses as transitive verb, noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.
- transitive verb. The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence.
- transitive verb. Woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind; specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber.
- transitive verb. Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
- transitive verb. A medicine or mixture; a potion.
- transitive verb. Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.
- transitive verb. A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
- transitive verb. Paper stock ground ready for use.
- noun. To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick.
- noun. To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack.
- noun. To fill by being pressed or packed into.
- noun. To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey.
- noun. To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
- noun. To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; -- said of birds or other animals.
- noun. To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
- noun. To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
- noun. To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).
- intransitive verb. To feed gluttonously; to cram.
- noun. miscellaneous unspecified objects
"the trunk was full of stuff"
- noun. unspecified qualities required to do or be something
"the stuff of heros"
"you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine"
- noun. a critically important or characteristic component
"suspense is the very stuff of narrative"
- noun. senseless talk
"don't give me that stuff"
- noun. information in some unspecified form
"it was stuff I had heard before"
"there's good stuff in that book"
- noun. informal terms for personal possessions
"did you take all your clobber?"
- noun. 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"
- verb. fill with a stuffing while cooking
"Have you stuffed the turkey yet?"
- verb. fill tightly with a material
"stuff a pillow with feathers"
- verb. treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting
"stuff a bearskin"
- verb. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
"She stuffed herself at the dinner"
"The kids binged on ice cream"
- verb. obstruct
"My nose is all stuffed"
"Her arteries are blocked"
- verb. cram into a cavity
"The child stuffed candy into his pockets"
- verb. press or force
"Stuff money into an envelope"
"She thrust the letter into his hand"
Synonyms
hooey, poppycock, clobber, material, farce, binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, satiate, block, lug, shove, squeeze, thrust
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in stuff:
Common word forms
stuffs, stuffed, stuffer, stuffing, stuffless
Words from these letters
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