STUFFING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stuffing mean? 

• STUFFING (noun)
  The noun STUFFING has 2 senses:

1. a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables

2. padding put in mattresses and cushions and upholstered furniture

  Familiarity information: STUFFING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STUFFING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

dressing; stuffing

Hypernyms ("stuffing" is a kind of...):

concoction; intermixture; mixture (any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stuffing"):

turkey stuffing (stuffing for turkey)

oyster dressing; oyster stuffing (stuffing made with oysters)

farce; forcemeat (mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs)

Derivation:

stuff (fill with a stuffing while cooking)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Padding put in mattresses and cushions and upholstered furniture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("stuffing" is a kind of...):

cushioning; padding (artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stuffing"):

batten; batting (stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber)

 Context examples 

He did not know what to do with his cap, and was stuffing it into his coat pocket when the other took it from him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Summerlee was sitting up and stuffing some tobacco into his old briar.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The stout gentleman is stuffing the magazine into his overcoat pocket and looking on curiously.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

When the Scarecrow had bowed, as prettily as his straw stuffing would let him, before this beautiful creature, she looked upon him sweetly, and said: I am Oz, the Great and Terrible.

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

But for the happy chance of the gold stuffing, your suspicions would probably never have been aroused.

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

Even some small characteristic, such as having an apricot tart on your sideboard all the year round, or putting your candle out at night by stuffing it under your pillow, serves to separate you from your neighbour.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)