stuffs

Noun

stuff (usually uncountable, plural stuffs)

1. (informal, usually) Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.
   • What is all that stuff on your bedroom floor?
     He didn't want his pockets to bulge so he was walking around with all his stuff in his hands.
   1. (informal, obsolete, usually) Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
      • and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.1611, Bible, 1 Samuel 25:13, KJV
2. (informal, usually) Unspecified things or matters.
   • I had to do some stuff.
3. (usually) The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
   • Near-synonyms: constituents, ingredients; see also Thesaurus:substance

   Synonyms:

   matter, substance, constituents, ingredients, corporeity, body, mass, material

   1. (archaic, usually) A material for making clothing; any woven textile, but especially a woollen fabric.
      • Without waiting for a reply, she unbound the veil from her head, and took off the loose black novice's robe, which she had put over a gray stuff dress similar to that worn by Lucy.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 51
   2. (archaic, usually) Boards used for building.

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