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Stuffing   /stˈəfɪŋ/   Listen
Stuffing

noun
1.
A mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables.  Synonym: dressing.
2.
Padding put in mattresses and cushions and upholstered furniture.


Stuff

verb
(past & past part. stuffed; pres. part. stuffing)
1.
Cram into a cavity.
2.
Press or force.  Synonyms: shove, squeeze, thrust.  "She thrust the letter into his hand"
3.
Obstruct.  Synonyms: block, choke up, lug.  "Her arteries are blocked"
4.
Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself.  Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out.  "The kids binged on ice cream"
5.
Treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting.
6.
Fill tightly with a material.
7.
Fill with a stuffing while cooking.  Synonym: farce.



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"Stuffing" Quotes from Famous Books



... probably die if he were hit. But they were careful not dissolve partnership until the sweets were eaten and beyond even the wildest hopes of salvage. Then, in the later-on that had been predicted, Bull captured them in detail, and, as he had promised, he "lammed the stuffing" out of them. ...
— Here are Ladies • James Stephens
... provided plenty of food, and took them to bed with them. They set my daughter at liberty next day, and she spoke very handsomely of the young gentlemen, and said they had cured the skins with saltpetre, and were stuffing them when she left. But the subject was always ...
— Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men • Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
... to snort now and his breath came heavily. 'You infernal cad,' I said in good round English, 'I'm going to knock the stuffing out of you,' but he didn't know what I ...
— Greenmantle • John Buchan
... was driving her mad with pain and she was going to a dentist at one o'clock. He commiserated with her on her misadventure. Elodie went into realistic details of the wreck of the gold stopping on the praline stuffing of a chocolate. Then an anguished "Ne me coupez pas, Mademoiselle." But Mademoiselle of the Exchange cut ruthlessly, ...
— The Mountebank • William J. Locke
... Cherry, who wears glasses, could not see so well. Both volunteered, but as I say, I thought out all the pros and cons and sent Crean, knowing that, at the worst, he could get back to us at any time. I sent a note to Captain Scott, and, stuffing Crean's pockets with food, we saw ...
— The Worst Journey in the World, Volumes 1 and 2 - Antarctic 1910-1913 • Apsley Cherry-Garrard


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