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.
verb
  • 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.
– derivatives
-stuffer noun.
– origin ME: shortening of OFr. estoffe ‘material, furniture’, estoffer ‘equip, furnish’, from Gk stuphein ‘draw together’.
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