Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word stuff. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in stuff.
Definitions and meaning of stuff
stuff
Etymology
From Middle Englishstuffen(“to equip, furnish”), borrowed from Old Frenchestoffer, estofer(“to provide what is necessary, equip, stuff”), borrowed from Old High Germanstoffōn, from Proto-West Germanic*stoppōn(“to clog up, block, fill”). More at stop.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /stʌf/
Rhymes: -ʌf
Noun
stuff (usually uncountable, pluralstuffs)
(informal) Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.
(obsolete, uncountable) Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
(informal) Unspecified things or matters.
The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
Synonyms:matter, ingredients, constituents; see also Thesaurus:substance
(archaic) A material for making clothing; any woven textile, but especially a woollen fabric.
(archaic) Boards used for building.
Abstract/figurative substance or character.
Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.
(informal)Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
Synonyms:doodad, thingamabob; see also Thesaurus:thingy
(slang) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
Synonyms:dope, gear; see also Thesaurus:recreational drug
(obsolete) A medicine or mixture; a potion.
(sometimes euphemistic) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language.
Synonyms:garbage, rubbish, nonsense, stuff and nonsense; see also Thesaurus:trash, Thesaurus:nonsense
(nautical) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
(slang, criminal argot, dated) Money.
Usage notes
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 of silk.
Synonyms
(Placeholder name) See Thesaurus:thingy
Derived terms
Descendants
→ Irish: stuif
Translations
Verb
stuff (third-person singular simple presentstuffs, present participlestuffing, simple past and past participlestuffed)
(transitive) To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
I'm going to stuff this pillow with feathers.
(transitive) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
(transitive, cooking) To fill with seasoning.
(transitive) To load goods into (a container) for transport.
(transitive, used in the passive) To sate.
(takes a reflexive pronoun) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
Synonyms:fill one's face, feed one's face, stuff one's face
(transitive, British, Australia, New Zealand) To break; to destroy.
(transitive, vulgar, British, Australia, New Zealand) To sexually penetrate.
Synonyms:fuck, root, screw
(transitive, mildly vulgar, often imperative)Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something.See also stuff it.
(informal) To heavily defeat or get the better of.
Mudchester Rovers were stuffed 7-0 in the semi-final.
They totally stuffed us in that business deal.
(transitive) To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.
To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
(transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
(transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
(transitive, dated) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
(transitive, computing) To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
Derived terms
Translations
References
“stuff”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
“stuff”, in The Century Dictionary[…], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.