stuffed
adjective
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Pronunciation: /stʌft/
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree English stuff English -ed English stuffed From stuff + -ed.
- Full or packed (with some material or substance).
“Near-synonym: stuffed to the gills”
“Customs officers look closely through a stuffed suitcase.”
- Filled with a filling and seasoning.
“We're having stuffed turkey for dinner.”
“The turkey is stuffed with a stuffing made of bread and herbs.”
- Full after eating.
“Near-synonym: stuffed to the gills”
“Stuffed children sleep poorly.”
- Very tired.
“'Well, you talked me into it,' said Cornelius. 'I feel really stuffed. I can tell you that for sure. So I could do with a bloody good sleep.'”
- Broken, not functional; in trouble, in a situation from which one is unlikely to recover.
“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.”
“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.”
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree English stuff English -ed English stuffed From stuff + -ed.
- simple past and past participle of stuff