stuffed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stuff
English -ed
English stuffed
From stuff + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more stuffed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stuffed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Full or packed (with some material or substance).
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: stuffed to the gills
Customs officers look closely through a stuffed suitcase.
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.[…].
In unconscious memory of this relationship of animals and innocence, children's rooms are traditionally filled with stuffed animals.
Hence, perhaps, the dins Céline deafens us with, in texts more and more stuffed with onomatopoeias.
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.
The more stuffed your hard drive, the more Blob-like it becomes.
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.
gloss: Filled with a filling and seasoning.
pos: adj
examples: We're having stuffed turkey for dinner.
The turkey is stuffed with a stuffing made of bread and herbs.
gloss: Full after eating.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Near-synonym: stuffed to the gills
Stuffed children sleep poorly.
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."
"See, huge meal." Replied Farra. / "Still stuffed." / "Yes, quite stuffed."
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."
gloss: Very tired.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
Ireland
New-Zealand
UK
informal
examples: '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.'
gloss: Broken, not functional; in trouble, in a situation from which one is unlikely to recover.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
Ireland
New-Zealand
UK
examples: 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.
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.
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.
Derived words: get stuffed
overstuffed
stuffed animal
stuffed ham
stuffed like a turkey
stuffedness
stuffed-shirt
stuffed shirt
stuffed to the gills
stuffed toy
stuffed up
understuffed
unstuffed
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