stuffing

/หˆstสŒfษชล‹/

IPA: /S T AH1 F IH0 NG/

verb
  1. 1

    To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.

    โ€œI'm going to stuff this pillow with feathers.โ€

  2. 2

    To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.

    โ€œHe stuffed his clothes into the closet and shut the door.โ€

  3. 3

    To fill with seasoning.

    โ€œShe stuffed the turkey for Thanksgiving using her secret recipe.โ€

  4. 4

    To load goods into (a container) for transport.

  5. 5

    (used in the passive) To sate.

    โ€œIโ€™m stuffed after having eaten all that turkey, mashed potatoes and delicious stuffing.โ€

  6. 6

    (pronominal) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.

    โ€œShe sits on the sofa all day, watching TV and stuffing herself with cream buns.โ€

  7. 7

    To break; to destroy.

    โ€œHe skidded off the road and totally stuffed his brand new car.โ€

  8. 8

    To sexually penetrate.

    โ€œHis wife came home early and found him on the couch stuffing the maid.โ€

  9. 9

    (mildly vulgar, often imperative) Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it.

    โ€œStuff your stupid rules, I'll do what I like.โ€

  10. 10

    To heavily defeat or get the better of.

    โ€œMudchester Rovers were stuffed 7-0 in the semi-final.โ€

  11. 11

    To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.

    โ€œI got stuffed by that guy on the supermoto going into that turn, almost causing us to crash.โ€

  12. 12

    To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.

  13. 13

    To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.

  14. 14

    To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.

  15. 15

    To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.

  16. 16

    To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.

noun
  1. 1

    The matter used to stuff hollow objects such as pillows and saddles.

  2. 2

    Any of many food items used to stuff another.

    โ€œstuffing for a Christmas turkeyโ€

  3. 3

    A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather.

  4. 4

    The insertion of many copies of a word into a web page in an attempt to increase its search engine ranking.

  5. 5

    A tax loophole whereby a corporation acquires property that will result in a loss of revenue, purely in order to reduce its tax liability.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stuff, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stuffing