hokum vs stuff

hokum and stuff both are nouns.

hokum is not a verb while stuff is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hokum	Yes	No	No	No
stuff	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, stuff is a hyponym of hokum; that is, stuff is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than hokum:

hokum: a message that seems to convey no meaning
stuff: senseless talk

Other hyponyms of hokum include absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness, amphigory, nonsense verse, balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle, buzzword, cant, cobblers, crock, fa la, fal la, gibber, gibberish, incoherence, incoherency, unintelligibility, jabberwocky, flummery, mummery, empty talk, empty words, hot air, palaver, rhetoric, rigamarole, rigmarole, schmegegge, shmegegge, hooey, poppycock, stuff and nonsense, baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle.

hokum (noun)	stuff (noun)
a message that seems to convey no meaning	miscellaneous unspecified objects
	unspecified qualities required to do or be something
	a critically important or characteristic component
	senseless talk
	information in some unspecified form
	informal terms for personal possessions
	the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object

hokum (verb)	stuff (verb)
	fill with a stuffing while cooking
	fill tightly with a material
	treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting
	overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
	cram into a cavity
	obstruct
	press or force

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