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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



... home. I do not think the young gentlemen meant any harm, for they 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 ...
— Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men • Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
... display galantines of chicken, the windows banked with shining cans of sardines and herrings from Dieppe; liver pates and creations in jelly; tiny sausages of doubtful stuffing, and occasional yellow ones like the ...
— The Real Latin Quarter • F. Berkeley Smith
... pulled off his shoes and stockings. As he wanted to carry these with him, he was at first a little puzzled by this new difficulty. He finally tied the shoes together by the strings and hung them round his neck. He disposed of the stockings by stuffing ...
— Paul Prescott's Charge • Horatio Alger
... Stuffing the ballot box was common in South Carolina and other states. In one election in this state the number of votes cast was almost double the number the names on the polling list. In some places the imposition of a poll tax peacefully eliminated the ...
— The United States Since The Civil War • Charles Ramsdell Lingley
... leap I descended from the ladder, and then, instinctively freeing it from the masonry and stuffing it in my pocket, I ran toward the spot from whence the sound came. I reached the front of the old mansion, but could see nothing; then, like one demented, I ran to the entrance which I had noticed through the ...
— The Birthright • Joseph Hocking


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