Definition of Stuff

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Definition of Stuff

Stuff

Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.

The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence.

Woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind; specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber.

Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.

A medicine or mixture; a potion.

Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.

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

Paper stock ground ready for use.

To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick.

To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack.

To fill by being pressed or packed into.

To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey.

To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.

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

To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.

To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.

To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).

To feed gluttonously; to cram.

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Stuff Quotations

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
Thomas Jefferson

Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin

Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.
Steven Wright

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.
Groucho Marx

I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.
W. C. Fields

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
William Shakespeare

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Jim Rohn

Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.
Will Rogers

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
Will Rogers

Stuff Translations

stuff in Danish is stof
stuff in Dutch is dingen, spullen
stuff in German is Stoff, stopfen, Zeug, Gewebe
stuff in Italian is stoffa, materiale
stuff in Latin is farci; farci; fartum, effercio
stuff in Portuguese is material

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