stuffed

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/stʌft/

adj 5

Collocations

ADJ.

animal, close, closed, full, gold, huge, plastic

VERB + STUFFED

buy, comes, dressed, feel, found, get, got, like

STUFFED + NOUN

cheese, fox, furniture, gills, ken's, laundry, money, odds

PREP.

in, into, through, up, with

ADV.

always, away, closely

Definitions

adj

Full or packed (with some material or substance).

Near-synonym: stuffed to the gills

Customs officers look closely through a stuffed suitcase.

Filled with a filling and seasoning.

We're having stuffed turkey for dinner.

The turkey is stuffed with a stuffing made of bread and herbs.

Full after eating.

Near-synonym: stuffed to the gills

Stuffed children sleep poorly.

Very tired.

'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.'

Broken, not functional; in trouble, in a situation from which one is unlikely to recover.

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.

Thesaurus

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Idioms & Phrases

stuffed shirt

One who is pompous or self-important, especially one who is either officious or punctilious in a position of authority.

"Don't you come the high-and-holy on me. You and your smooth, big, phony stuffed-shirt of a father."

stuffed like a turkey

Very full from overeating.

stuffed to the gills

Completely full.

Near-synonyms: stuffed; packed to the gills; see also Thesaurus:empty § Antonyms

Example Bank

Near-synonym: stuffed to the gills

Wiktionary

Customs officers look closely through a stuffed suitcase.

Wiktionary

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 th

Wiktionary

The drawer is stuffed full of odds and ends.

Tatoeba · #27149

Then he got dressed, stuffed his lecture notes into his briefcase, and ran down the stairs.

Tatoeba · #43151

The mayor is a stuffed shirt.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, stuffed is marked as slang, informal, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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