“stuff” – English explanatory dictionary

noun 1. a substance, especially something unpleasant ○ You’ve got some black stuff stuck to your shoe. 2. equipment or possessions ○ Dump all your stuff in the living room. ○ Take all that stuff and put it in the dustbin. ○ All your photographic stuff is still in the back of my car. 3. information or ideas about something ○ She talked about the dangers of smoking and all that stuff about lung cancer. 4. □ to do your stuff to do what people want you to do or what you are good at (informal.) ○ Come on, England, do your stuff! ○ Everyone must do their stuff quickly if we want the work to be finished tonight. □ to know your stuff to know your subject well, to be good at what you are doing ○ It was fascinating to listen to him, he really knows his stuff. ■ verb 1. to push something into something to fill it ○ He stuffed his pockets full of peppermints. ○ The banknotes were stuffed into a small plastic wallet. 2. to put small pieces of food such as bread, meat or herbs inside meat or vegetables before cooking them ○ We had roast veal stuffed with mushrooms. 3. □ to stuff yourself to eat a lot (informal.) ○ They were stuffing themselves on chocolate pudding. 4. to fill the skin of a dead animal so that it looks alive ○ There was a stuffed tiger at the top of the staircase in the old castle. 5. □ get stuffed go away, stop annoying me (informal, rude) ○ You can tell the manager to go and get stuffed.

money.

to make false but plausible statements, to praise ironically,
to make game of a person,—literally, to STUFF or cram him with gammon
or falsehood.

n. [OF. estoffe, F. etoffe; of uncertain origin, perhaps of Teutonic origin and akin to E. stop, v.t. Cf. Stuff, v. t.]
1. Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture. “For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.” Ex. xxxvi. 7. “Ambitions should be made of sterner stuff.” Shak. “The workman on his stuff his skill doth show,
And yet the stuff gives not the man his skill.” Sir J. Davies.
2. The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence. “Yet do I hold it very stuff o’ the conscience
To do no contrived murder.” Shak.
3. Woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind; specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber. “What stuff wilt have a kirtle of?” Shak. “It [the arras] was of stuff and silk mixed, though, superior kinds were of silk exclusively.” F. G. Lee.
4. Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils. “He took away locks, and gave away the king’s stuff.” Hayward.
5. A medicine or mixture; a potion. Shak.
6. Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash. “Anger would indite
Such woeful stuff as I or Shadwell write.” Dryden.
7. (Naut.) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
8. Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, called half stuff. Knight. Clear stuff. See under Clear. — Small stuff (Naut.), all kinds of small cordage. Ham. Nav. Encyc. — Stuff gown, the distinctive garb of a junior barrister; hence, a junior barrister himself. See Silk gown, under Silk.

v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stuffed p. pr. & vb. n. Stuffing.] [OE. stoffen; cf. OF. estoffer, F. etoffer, to put stuff in, to stuff, to line, also OF. estouffer to stifle, F. etouffer; both perhaps of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. stop. Cf. Stop, v. t., Stuff, n.]
1. To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as to stuff a bedtick. “Sometimes this crook drew hazel bought adown,
And stuffed her apron wide with nuts so brown.” Gay. “Lest the gods, for sin,
Should with a swelling dropsy stuff thy skin.” Dryden.
2. To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack. “Put roses into a glass with a narrow mouth, stuffing them close together … and they retain smell and color.” Bacon.
3. To fill by being pressed or packed into. “With inward arms the dire machine they load,
And iron bowels stuff the dark abode.” Dryden.
4. (Cookery) To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as to stuff a turkey.
5. To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration. “I’m stuffed, cousin; I can not smell.” Shak.
6. To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; — said of birds or other animals.
7. To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material. “An Eastern king put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence, and ordered his hide to be stuffed into a cushion, and placed upon the tribunal.” Swift.
8. To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
9. To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box). [U. S.]