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- US Pronunciation
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- [stuhf]
- /stʌf/
- /stʌft/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [stuhf]
- /stʌf/
Definitions of stuffed word
- noun stuffed the material of which anything is made: a hard, crystalline stuff. 1
- noun stuffed material to be worked upon or to be used in making something: wood, steel, and other stuff for building. 1
- noun stuffed material of some unspecified kind: a cushion filled with some soft stuff. 1
- noun stuffed Chiefly British. woven material or fabric, especially wool. 1
- noun stuffed property, as personal belongings or equipment; things. 1
- noun stuffed something to be swallowed, as food, drink, or medicine. 1
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Origin of stuffed
First appearance:
before 1300 One of the 15% oldest English words
1300-50; (v.) late Middle English stuffen to equip, furnish < Old French estoffer literally, to stuff < Frankish *stopfōn, *stoppōn (see stop); (noun) Middle English < Old French estoffe, derivative of the v.
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Parts of speech for Stuffed
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
stuffed popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 93% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
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This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for stuffed
adj stuffed
- big — A big person or thing is large in physical size.
- brimful — Someone who is brimful of an emotion or quality feels or seems full of it. An object or place that is brimful of something is full of it.
- brimming — completely full with something
- ceiled — to overlay (the ceiling of a building or room) with wood, plaster, etc.
- chock — a block or wedge of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object
noun stuffed
- bombast — Bombast is trying to impress people by saying things that sound impressive but have little meaning.
- altiloquence — Pompous language; lofty speech.
adjective stuffed
- crammed — If a place is crammed with things or people, it is full of them, so that there is hardly room for anything or anyone else.
- encrusted — Simple past tense and past participle of encrust.
- filled — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
- glutted — to feed or fill to satiety; sate: to glut the appetite.
- gorged — (of a beast) represented wearing something about the neck in the manner of a collar: a lion gules gorged with a collar or.
Antonyms for stuffed
adj stuffed
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