stuff
n 1: 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" [syn: {material}]
2: miscellaneous unspecified artifacts; "the trunk was full of
stuff" [syn: {whatchamacallit}, {whatsis}, {sundry}, {sundries}]
3: informal terms for personal possessions; "did you take all
your clobber?" [syn: {clobber}]
4: senseless talk; "don't give me that stuff" [syn: {stuff and
nonsense}, {hooey}, {poppycock}]
5: unspecified qualities required to do or be something; "the
stuff of heros"; "you don't have the stuff to be a United
States Marine"
6: information in some unspecified form; "it was stuff I had
heard before"; "there's good stuff in that book"
7: a critically important or characteristic component;
"suspense is the very stuff of narrative"
v 1: fill completely; "The child stuffed his pockets with candy"
2: press or force; "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust
the letter into his hand" [syn: {thrust}, {shove}, {squeeze}]
3: eat until one is sated; "He filled up on turkey" [syn: {fill
up}, {fill}, {jam}, {cram}]
4: obstruct, as of a passage; "My nose is all stuffed"; "Her
arteries are blocked" [syn: {lug}, {choke up}, {block}]
[ant: {unstuff}]
5: overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself [syn: {gorge},
{ingurgitate}, {overindulge}, {glut}, {englut}, {engorge},
{overgorge}, {overeat}, {gormandize}, {gormandise}, {gourmandize},
{binge}, {pig out}, {satiate}, {scarf out}] [ant: {nibble}]
6: treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting; "stuff a
bearskin"
7: fill with a stuffing while cooking; "Have you stuffed the
turkey yet?"