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STUFFED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Filled with something
Example:
a stuffed turkey
Classified under:
Similar:
full (containing as much or as many as is possible or normal)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Crammed with food
Example:
I feel stuffed
Classified under:
Similar:
full (containing as much or as many as is possible or normal)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb stuff
Context examples:
My pocketbook is stuffed with the old coinage, and it’s a stubborn thing.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
All that may be done is already carried out, for we have stuffed the gape with sails and corded it without and within.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The light shone vividly into the opened safe, and the secretary of the embassy gazed with an absorbed interest at the rows of stuffed pigeon-holes with which it was furnished.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was lined with hardtack; the mattress was stuffed with hardtack; every nook and cranny was filled with hardtack.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
I had for breakfast more paprika, and a sort of porridge of maize flour which they said was mamaliga, and egg-plant stuffed with forcemeat, a very excellent dish, which they call impletata.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Suddenly I saw him halt, listen intently, and then in an instant he had swung the door of the safe to, picked up his coat, stuffed his tools into the pockets, and darted behind the window curtain, motioning me to do the same.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She was seated in her mother's lap, covered with kisses, her wound bathed with lavender-water, by one of the Miss Steeles, who was on her knees to attend her, and her mouth stuffed with sugar plums by the other.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
"Is he made of tin, or stuffed?" asked the Lion.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
He laughed as he spoke, and I saw with a thrill that his second tooth upon the left-hand side had been very badly stuffed with gold.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The fat turkey was a sight to behold, when Hannah sent him up, stuffed, browned, and decorated.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
