stuff
/stʌf/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.14 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.
Informal; Obsolete; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face."
- "and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff."
- "He took away locks, and gave away the king's stuff."
- "I had to do some stuff."
- "Andy Jackson puts it more bluntly: "Just because we are off the naughty step doesn't mean we can stop doing stuff. It's far from 'no more action'."
Etymology
From Middle English stuf, stuffe, from Anglo-Latin stuffa and its etymon Old French estofe, estoffe, estuf, estuffe, stoffe, from estoffer, estofer (“to provide what is necessary, equip, stuff”), borrowed from Old High German stoffōn, from Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn (“to clog up, block, fill”). More at stop.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /stʌf/
- British English: /stʌf/
Usage
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Derived Forms
Phrases
Synonyms
matter
substance
constituents
ingredients
corporeity
body
mass
material
stuff
doodad
thingamabob
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