stuffed animal

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Noun

stuffed animal (plural stuffed animals)

1. (US, Canada) A soft toy in the form of an animal.

   Synonyms: stuffie, plushie

2. An animal that has undergone taxidermy.
   • 1895 May 29, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Palace of Green Porcelain”, in The Time Machine: An Invention, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 110:

     Apparently this section had been devoted to natural history, but everything had long since passed out of recognition. A few shrivelled and blackened vestiges of what had once been stuffed animals, desiccated mummies in jars that had once held spirit, a brown dust of departed plants: that was all!

Hypernyms

• (soft toy): soft toy

Hyponyms

• (soft toy): teddy bear

Translations

soft toy in the form of an animal

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 毛絨動物 / 毛绒动物 (máoróng dòngwù)

• Danish: tøjdyr n, krammedyr n
• Dutch: knuffelbeest (nl) n
• Esperanto: pluŝbesto
• Finnish: pehmolelu (fi)
• French: peluche (fr) f
• German: Plüschtier (de) n, Stofftier (de) n, Kuscheltier (de) n, Schmusetier n
• Hungarian: plüssállat (hu)
• Icelandic: tuskudýr n
• Italian: peluche (it) m, pelusce m, peluscio m, peluscia f
• Japanese: 縫い包み (ja) (ぬいぐるみ, nuigurumi)
• Luxembourgish: Petzi (lb) n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bamse (no) m, kosedyr n, tøydyr n

  Nynorsk: kosedyr n

• Polish: maskotka (pl) f, pluszak (pl) m, przytulanka (pl) f
• Portuguese: bicho de pelúcia (pt) m, bicho de peluche m
• Russian: мя́гкая игру́шка f (mjáxkaja igrúška), плю́шевая игру́шка f (pljúševaja igrúška) (plush toy)
• Spanish: peluche (es), animal de peluche m
• Swedish: kramdjur (sv) n, gosedjur (sv) n, mjukisdjur (sv) n
• Vietnamese: thú nhồi bông

animal that has undergone taxidermy

• Polish: wypchane zwierzę n
• Swedish: uppstoppat djur n

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