stuff

Meanings

Noun

• Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.
• Unspecified things or matters.
• The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
• Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
• A medicine or mixture; a potion.
• Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language.
• A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
• Money.

Verb

• To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
• To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
• To fill with seasoning.
• To load goods into (a container) for transport.
• To sate.
• To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
• To break; to destroy.
• To sexually penetrate.
• See also stuff it.
• To heavily defeat or get the better of.
• 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.
• To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
• 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 compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.

Origin

• From Middle English stuffen, borrowed from Old French estoffer, estofer, borrowed from Old High German stoffōn, from Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn. More at stop.