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How to pronounce stuff in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms clobber
Type of personal estate, private property, personalty, personal property
Type Words
Synonyms binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out
Type of eat


She stuffed herself at the dinner.
Type Words
Synonyms farce
Type of fill up, make full, fill
Derivation stuffing


Have you stuffed the turkey yet?.
Type Words
Synonyms hooey, poppycock, stuff and nonsense
Type of meaninglessness, bunk, hokum, nonsensicality, nonsense


don't give me that stuff.
Type Words
Synonyms block, choke up, lug
Type of choke off, clog, clog up, congest, foul, choke, back up


My nose is all stuffed.
Type Words
Synonyms material
Type of substance
Has types particulate, particulate matter, litter, insulator, impregnation, humate, homogenate, plant material, plant substance, precursor, hazmat, radioactive material, raw material, recycling, rind, rock, sealing material, abradant, sorbate, sorbent, sorbent material, speck, staple, stone, molecule, mineral, packing, packing material, paper, particle, adhesive, abrasive material, mote, nonconductor, ground, foam, fluff, thickener, thickening, floccule, floc, filling, fill, fibre, fiber, emission, toner, translucent substance, transparent substance, undercut, abrasive, vernix, vernix caseosa, wad, wadding, waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product, elastomer, earth, dust, discharge, dielectric, diamagnet, detritus, detergent builder, corpuscle, contamination, contaminant, conductor, composite material, colouring material, colour, coloring material, color, chemical substance, chemical, builder, bimetal, bedding material, bedding, ballast, atom, animal material, ammunition, aggregate, adhesive material, adhesive agent


wheat is the stuff they use to make bread.
Type Words
Synonyms shove, squeeze, thrust
Type of push, force
Type Words
Type of sum, marrow, meat, nub, nitty-gritty, kernel, center, centre, inwardness, pith, core, heart and soul, heart, substance, gist, essence


suspense is the very stuff of narrative.
Type Words
Type of cram
Has types chock up, jam, jampack, fill out, pad, overstuff, cram, ram, wad


The child stuffed candy into his pockets.
Type Words
Type of fill, make full, fill up
Has types cork
Verb group farce
Derivation stuffer


stuff a pillow with feathers.
Type Words
Type of information, info


it was stuff I had heard before.
there's good stuff in that book.
Type Words
Type of object, physical object
Has types etcetera, thingumajig, thingumabob, thingmajig, thingmabob, thingamajig, thingamabob, sundries, widget, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, whatchamacallum, whatchamacallit, thingummy, doodad, doohickey, doojigger, whatsis


the trunk was full of stuff.
Type Words
Type of saturate, impregnate


stuff a bearskin.
Type Words
Type of quality


the stuff of heros.
you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine.

Examples of stuff

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This stuff is pure kibble to fans of lovingly-crafted trashy movies like myself.
From the stltoday.com
Then they get the whole summer of conditioning and work outs and all that stuff.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Grandparents get to provide the really fun stuff that kids actually use in play.
From the thenewstribune.com
There's a guy dressed like a butler who is holding a large platter of the stuff.
From the dailynews.com
There's a lot of stuff in India now that wasn't going on six or seven years ago.
From the ocregister.com
He said after chopping stuff for about six hours, it wasn't much fun any longer.
From the chron.com
Like if we do stuff across the floor, I don't let them get away with not trying.
From the dailynews.com
Rather than shoveling snow, the stuff was so heavy it was like lifting concrete.
From the timesunion.com
So I'm looking at stuff I shouldn't be looking at while I'm trying to play golf.
From the sacbee.com
More examples
  • Material: 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"
  • Cram into a cavity; "The child stuffed candy into his pockets"
  • Miscellaneous unspecified objects; "the trunk was full of stuff"
  • Thrust: press or force; "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand"
  • Informal terms for personal possessions; "did you take all your clobber?"
  • Obstruct; "My nose is all stuffed"; "Her arteries are blocked"
  • Stuff is Holly McNarland's 1997 debut LP album. It features the singles "Elmo", "Coward" and "Numb".
  • Stuff was a New York-based jazz funk band active in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The members were Gordon Edwards (bass), Richard Tee (keyboards), Eric Gale (guitar), Cornell Dupree (guitar), Chris Parker (drums), and later Steve Gadd (drums). ...
  • Stuff was a type of coarse thickly woven cloth manufactured in various places, formerly including Kidderminster. Originally it was probably entirely of wool, but later a 'woolsey-linsey' cloth, made with a warp of linen yarn and a worsted weft.