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say it: stuhf
stuff is a noun and verb meaning "the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object". It carries 14 recorded senses.
informal terms for personal possessions
“did you take all your clobber?”
senseless talk
“don't give me that stuff”
slang
unspecified qualities required to do or be something
“the stuff of heros”
“you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine”
information in some unspecified form
“it was stuff I had heard before”
“there's good stuff in that book”
a critically important or characteristic component
“suspense is the very stuff of narrative”
overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
“She stuffed herself at the dinner”
“The kids binged on ice cream”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stuff come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.