stuffed
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- Rhymes: -ʌft
Verb [edit]
stuffed
- simple past tense and past participle of stuff
Adjective [edit]
stuffed (comparative more stuffed, superlative most stuffed)
- Full (with), or packed (with some material or substance).
- 1997, Philippe Bonnefis, Paul Weidmann (translator), Céline: The Recall of the Birds, [page 109],
- Hence, perhaps, the dins Céline deafens us with, in texts more and more stuffed with onomatopoeias.
- 2008, Carn Tiernan, On the Back of the Other Side, page 2,
- 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.
- 2009, Marsha Collier, eBay Business All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition, unnumbered page,
- The more stuffed your hard drive, the more Blob-like it becomes.
- 2009, David Ugba, Awaken the Riches Within: Creating Extraordinary Wealth Using the Powerful Imagination of a Poet, iUniverse, page 96,
- 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.
- 1997, Philippe Bonnefis, Paul Weidmann (translator), Céline: The Recall of the Birds, [page 109],
- (slang) Full after eating.
- 2002, Sheila M. Reindl, Sensing the Self: Women′s Recovery from Bulimia, page 40,
- 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.”
- 2009, Jason McCammon, The Ancient Lands: Warrior Quest: Search for the IFA Scepter, unnumbered page,
- “See, huge meal.” Replied Farra.
- “Still stuffed.”
- “Yes, quite stuffed.”
- 2009, Swapna Dutta, Geeta Menon (editor), Folk Tales of West Bengal, page 47,
- 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.”
- 2002, Sheila M. Reindl, Sensing the Self: Women′s Recovery from Bulimia, page 40,
- (Australia, New Zealand, informal) Very tired.
- 2011, Nick Oud, The Hatchling and The Human, Xlibris, page 74,
- ‘Well, you talked me into it,’ sad Cornelius. ‘I feel really stuffed. I can tell you that for sure. So I could do with a bloody good sleep.’
- 2011, Nick Oud, The Hatchling and The Human, Xlibris, page 74,
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) Broken, not functional; in trouble, in a situation from which one is unlikely to recover.
- 1998, John Marsden, The Night is for Hunting, 2001, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, unnumbered page,
- 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.
- 2002, Clare de Vries, Of Cats and Kings, page 174,
- 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.
- 1998, John Marsden, The Night is for Hunting, 2001, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, unnumbered page,
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
with material
with food
