stuffed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /stʌft/
rhymes: -ʌft
Forms: form: more stuffed
form: most stuffed
Etymology: From stuff + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: stuffed to the gills
text: Customs officers look closely through a stuffed suitcase.
text: They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.[…].
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: In unconscious memory of this relationship of animals and innocence, children's rooms are traditionally filled with stuffed animals.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 190:
text: Hence, perhaps, the dins Céline deafens us with, in texts more and more stuffed with onomatopoeias.
ref: 1997, Philippe Bonnefis, translated by Paul Weidmann, Céline: The Recall of the Birds, page 109:
text: She didn't forget to pack anything, none of those irritating little things that wait till the last moment to pop out of hiding and make her re-open her most stuffed suitcase.
ref: 2008, Carn Tiernan, On the Back of the Other Side, page 2:
text: The more stuffed your hard drive, the more Blob-like it becomes.
ref: 2009, Marsha Collier, eBay Business All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd edition, unnumbered page:
text: Creating a poetic or extraordinary belief is the simple act of intensifying the mood or atmosphere of your belief and making it more stuffed with the ability or power to come real.
ref: 2009, David Ugba, Awaken the Riches Within: Creating Extraordinary Wealth Using the Powerful Imagination of a Poet, iUniverse, page 96:
glosses: Full or packed (with some material or substance).
examples: text: We're having stuffed turkey for dinner.
text: The turkey is stuffed with a stuffing made of bread and herbs.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Filled with a filling and seasoning.
examples: text: Near-synonym: stuffed to the gills
text: Stuffed children sleep poorly.
text: Beth says: "I never knew when I was full 'cause I always felt like I didn't know whether I was hungry or full. My whole life I never knew when I was full or hungry unless I was really stuffed or really starving."
ref: 2002, Sheila M. Reindl, Sensing the Self: Women′s Recovery from Bulimia, page 40:
text: "See, huge meal." Replied Farra. / "Still stuffed." / "Yes, quite stuffed."
ref: 2009, Jason McCammon, The Ancient Lands: Warrior Quest: Search for the IFA Scepter, unnumbered page:
text: Allhadi gave a contented yawn and said: / "I have eaten till I am really stuffed / I am full and bloated and so puffed / I am bursting, I am telling you true / I couldn't eat more if you begged me to."
ref: 2009, Swapna Dutta, edited by Geeta Menon, Folk Tales of West Bengal, page 47:
glosses: Full after eating.
examples: text: 'Well, you talked me into it,' said Cornelius. 'I feel really stuffed. I can tell you that for sure. So I could do with a bloody good sleep.'
ref: 2011, Nick Oud, The Hatchling and The Human, Xlibris, page 74:
synonyms: word: exhausted
word: weary
word: bleareyed
word: bleary
word: bleary-eyed
word: bone-tired
word: bushed
word: tired out
word: spent
word: drained
word: dog-tired
word: dog-weary
word: exhausted
word: fatigued
word: forfairn
word: forlagen
word: forworn
word: heavyeyed
word: jaded
word: languid
word: enervated
word: out of gas
word: played out
word: run-down
word: shattered
word: shot
word: sleepy
word: stuffed
word: tired
word: washed out
word: weariful
word: weary
word: whacked
word: whipped
word: worn
word: worn out
word: banjaxed
word: beat
word: buggered
word: busted
word: dead tired
word: cream crackered
word: done
word: done in
word: done up
word: fagged out
word: fried
word: fucked
word: gassed
word: jiggered
word: Kerry Packered
word: knacked
word: knackered
word: nadgered
word: pooped
word: pooped out
word: pumped
word: shagged
word: shagged out
word: tuckered
word: tuckered out
word: wappened
word: zonked
glosses: Very tired.
examples: text: If the suspension was stuffed already from hitting the concrete base of the fence—and it was—then it was really stuffed by the time we'd gone a kilometre along the railway.
ref: 1998, John Marsden, The Night is for Hunting, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2001, unnumbered page:
text: But if you don't play ball in life, if you don′t go for it with a sincere 'Go, girrrrl' rugby-tackle attitude, you're really stuffed.
ref: 2002, Clare de Vries, Of Cats and Kings, page 174:
text: Although the 14-inch Standard that Yamato targets is stuffed, and maybe the one after that, a prolonged bombardment by a Colorado-class is not gonna do good things to anything - doesn't really matter who you are.
ref: 2019 March 6, Drachinifel, 36:17 from the start, in The Battle of Samar (Alternate History) - Bring on the Battleships!, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2022:
synonyms: word: busted
word: knackered
word: bad
word: borked
word: broken
word: broken-down
word: bung
word: busted
word: cactused
word: crocked
word: Donald Ducked
word: down
word: faulty
word: flaky
word: FUBAR
word: fucked
word: fuckered up
word: inoperative
word: janky
word: jiggered
word: kaput
word: knackered
word: malfunctioning
word: munted
word: nonfunctional
word: nonoperational
word: offline
word: off one's feed
word: on the blink
word: on the fritz
word: out of commission
word: out of gas
word: out of kilter
word: out of order
word: out of service
word: out of sorts
word: out of whack
word: screwed up
word: stuffed
word: tits up
word: toes up
word: tore up
word: unfunctional
glosses: Broken, not functional; in trouble, in a situation from which one is unlikely to recover.
Derived terms: get stuffed
overstuffed
stuffed animal
stuffed ham
stuffed like a turkey
stuffed-shirt
stuffed shirt
stuffed to the gills
stuffed toy
stuffed up
understuffed
unstuffed