Stuffed Meaning
/stʌft/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbsimple past and past participle of stuff
adjFull or packed (with some material or substance).
Sentence Examples
The drawer is stuffed full of odds and ends.
The mayor is a stuffed shirt.
CEFR Practice Quiz
After eating too much, the child felt completely ____ and could not move.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The child carried a small ____ bear everywhere he went, holding it tightly as he fell asleep at night.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree English stuff English -ed English stuffed From stuff + -ed.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.[…]."
— 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
"In unconscious memory of this relationship of animals and innocence, children's rooms are traditionally filled with stuffed animals."
— 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 190:
"Hence, perhaps, the dins Céline deafens us with, in texts more and more stuffed with onomatopoeias."
— 1997, Philippe Bonnefis, translated by Paul Weidmann, Céline: The Recall of the Birds, page 109:
"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."
— 2008, Carn Tiernan, On the Back of the Other Side, page 2:
"The more stuffed your hard drive, the more Blob-like it becomes."
— 2009, Marsha Collier, eBay Business All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd edition, unnumbered page:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
After eating too much, the child felt completely ____ and could not move.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The child carried a small ____ bear everywhere he went, holding it tightly as he fell asleep at night.