STUFFED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stuffed mean? 

• STUFFED (adjective)
  The adjective STUFFED has 2 senses:

1. filled with something

2. crammed with food

  Familiarity information: STUFFED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STUFFED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Filled with something

Context example:

a stuffed turkey

Similar:

full (containing as much or as many as is possible or normal)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Crammed with food

Context example:

I feel stuffed

Similar:

full (containing as much or as many as is possible or normal)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

 Context examples 

"It astonished me to see him whirl around so. Is the other one stuffed also?"

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Common symptoms of ear barotrauma include: • Pain • A feeling that your ears are stuffed • Hearing loss • Dizziness

(Barotrauma, NIH)

I served ’em with drink, and stayed with ’em just to see that they didn’t lay their ’ands on the stuffed parroquet and the pictures.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Hansel stooped and stuffed the little pocket of his coat with as many as he could get in.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

About his neck was put a moss-stuffed collar, which was connected by two pulling-traces to a strap that passed around his chest and over his back.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Then his hand went to his collar, which he ripped out of the shirt and stuffed into his pocket.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Of course you expect two brothers to be alike, but not that they should have the same tooth stuffed in the same way.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Jo turned hot at the bare idea, and stuffed the whole bundle into her stove, nearly setting the chimney afire with the blaze.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He sat in his usual place and attitude like a great stuffed figure.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Every pocket stuffed with pennies and half-pennies—421 pennies and 270 half-pennies.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)