stuffed
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
stuff/stʌf/
▶noun
- 1 matter, material, articles, or activities of a specified or indeterminate kind.
■ informal alcoholic drink or drugs.
■ (one's stuff) one's area of expertise.
- 2 basic characteristics; substance: Healey was made of sterner stuff.
- 3 Brit. dated woollen fabric, especially as distinct from silk, cotton, and linen.
- 4 N. Amer. (in sport) spin given to a ball.
- 5 Brit. informal, dated nonsense; rubbish.
- 1 fill tightly with something.
■ force tightly into a receptacle or space.
■ fill out the skin of (a dead animal or bird) with material to restore the original shape and appearance.
■ push hastily into a space.
■ (be stuffed up) informal have one's nose blocked up with catarrh.
■ informal fill (oneself) with large amounts of food.
- 2 [usu. in imper.] Brit. informal used to express indifference or rejection.
- 3 Brit. informal defeat heavily in sport.
- 4 Brit. vulgar slang (of a man) have sex with.
- 5 N. Amer. place bogus votes in (a ballot box).
– phrases
get stuffed [usu. in imper.] Brit. informal said to express dismissal or contempt.
that's the stuff Brit. informal that is good or what is needed.
get stuffed [usu. in imper.] Brit. informal said to express dismissal or contempt.
that's the stuff Brit. informal that is good or what is needed.
– derivatives
-stuffer noun.
-stuffer noun.
– origin ME: shortening of OFr. estoffe ‘material, furniture’, estoffer ‘equip, furnish’, from Gk stuphein ‘draw together’.
'stuffed' also found in these Oxford entries:
ballotine
- cannelloni
- cappelletti
- chile relleno
- cushion
- farce
- feather bed
- gefilte fish
- haybox
- Imam Bayildi
- kachori
- kishke
- kulcha
- paupiette
- pierogi
- pillow
- pudding
- punchbag
- soft toy
- spanakopita
- stuff
- stuffed shirt
- tick
- tortelli
- truffled
- Woolsack

