Word: stuff Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English stuffen (“to equip, furnish”), borrowed from Old French 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. Pronunciation: /stʌf/, /stɐf/, /stʊf/ 1. To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess. Labels: transitive Example: I'm going to stuff this pillow with feathers. Example: Lest the gods, for sin, / Should with a swelling dropsy stuff thy skin. 2. To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner. Labels: transitive Example: He stuffed his clothes into the closet and shut the door. Example: Put them [roses] into a[…] glass, with narrow mouths, stuffing them close together […] and [they] retain[…] smell […][and] colour. 3. To fill with seasoning. Labels: transitive Example: She stuffed the turkey for Thanksgiving using her secret recipe. 4. To load goods into (a container) for transport. Labels: transitive 5. To sate. Labels: transitive Example: I’m stuffed after having eaten all that turkey, mashed potatoes and delicious stuffing. 6. To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner. Labels: pronominal, usually Example: She sits on the sofa all day, watching TV and stuffing herself with cream buns. 7. To break; to destroy. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, transitive Example: He skidded off the road and totally stuffed his brand new car. 8. To sexually penetrate. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, transitive, vulgar Example: His wife came home early and found him on the couch stuffing the maid. 9. Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it. Labels: imperative, mildly, often, transitive, vulgar Example: Stuff your stupid rules, I'll do what I like. Example: Jenny nodded in sympathy, spotting Ali's new iPod speakers sitting on top of the TV. Simone smiled and coughed. 'He forgot to take them with him. He can stuff it, it was my money.' 10. To heavily defeat or get the better of. Labels: informal Example: Mudchester Rovers were stuffed 7–0 in the semi-final. Example: They totally stuffed us in that business deal. 11. To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre. Labels: transitive Example: I got stuffed by that guy on the supermoto going into that turn, almost causing us to crash. 12. To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin. Example: KANG: When I take this ship, I'll have Kirk's head stuffed and hung on his cabin wall. // MARA: They will kill us before we can act. // KANG: No, they wish to question us, learn our strength, our plans. They never will. // MARA: We are forty against four hundred. // KLINGON: Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man. // KANG: Patience. Vigilance. They will make a mistake. Capture of the Enterprise will give us knowledge to end this war quickly. 13. To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration. Labels: transitive Example: I'm stuffed, cousin; I cannot smell. 14. To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material. Labels: transitive Example: An Eastern king put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence, and ordered his hide to be stuffed into a cushion, and placed upon the tribunal. 15. To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies. Labels: dated, transitive 16. To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later. Labels: transitive