Stuffing

Definition: Stuffing

Stuffing

Noun

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

2. Padding put in cushions and upholstered furniture.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stuffing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

Economics

Shipping

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Synonym: Stuffing

Contents

Noun: contents; cargo, lading, freight, shipment, load, bale, burden, jag; cartload, shipload; cup of, basket of; (receptacle) of; inside.; stuffing, ullage.

Deception

Trick, cheat, wile, blind, feint, plant, bubble, fetch, catch, chicane, juggle, reach, hocus, bite; card sharping, stacked deck, loaded dice, quick shuffle, double dealing, dealing seconds, dealing from the bottom of the deck; artful dodge, swindle; tricks upon travelers; stratagem; (artifice); confidence trick, fake, hoax; theft; ballot-box stuffing barney, brace game, bunko game, drop game, gum game, panel game; shell game, thimblerig; skin game.

Lining

Filling, stuffing, wadding, padding.

Stopper

Noun: stopper, stopple; plug, cork, bung, spike, spill, tap; rammer; ram, ramrod; piston; stop-gap; wadding, stuffing, padding, stopping, dossil, pledget, tompion, tourniquet.

Crosswords: Stuffing

I am sitting here, Mr.Cook, toying with the idea of cutting out your heart, and stuffing it, like an olive (Nothing Sacred; writing credit: James H. Street; Ben Hecht)

Since I was twelve years old they've been taking me out the closet and winding me up to sing and stuffing me back in again (Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows; writing credit: Lorna Luft; Robert L. Freedman)

No turkey, no stuffing, no pie. No nooky (Now and Again; writing credit: Michael Angeli)

That scares the stuffing out of them (NeverWhere; writing credit: Neil Gaiman; Lenny Henry)

You know, I am an artist the way I combine my business and my pleasure: Money's my business, eating's my pleasure and Georgie's my pleasure, too, though in a more private kind of way than stuffing the mouth and feeding the sewers, though the pleasures are related because the naughty bits and the dirty bits are so close together that it just goes to show how eating and sex are related (The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover; writing credit: Peter Greenaway)

Carry On Christmas: Carry On Stuffing (1972)

Stuffing Sausage (1901)

Dream Stuffing (1984)

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References

• The World Market for Vegetable Materials Used Primarily for Stuffing or Padding Including Kapok, Vegetable Hair, and Eelgrass: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• Stuffing Envelopes and Mailing Letters (reference)

• Suggestions for Making Money Addressing and Stuffing Envelopes or How to Run a Small Letter Shop Service (reference)

• The Weight Watchers Audio Collection: Featuring Weight Watchers Walk!, Weight Watchers Country Walk!, and Weight Watchers Stop Stuffing Yourself (reference)

• Weight Watchers® Stop Stuffing Yourself : 7 Steps To Conquering Overeating (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Stuffing the ballot box. Credit: Library of Congress.

Loose stuffing. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Health

Remove the stuffing immediately from poultry and other meats and refrigerate it in a separate container. (references)

Because you find mouse droppings and some of the furniture stuffing the mice have used as nesting material, you get a broom and sweep up the mess. As you move around and sweep, tiny particles of fresh urine, droppings and saliva, with the virus in them, get kicked up into the air. This is the aerosolization. (references)

Political Rights

Armenia

There was no criminal investigation of the amply documented ballot box stuffing. (references)

Moldova

Local observers reported that the actual voting was unfair, with considerable ballot box stuffing. (references)

Ukraine

Very high voter turnouts, particularly in western districts, aroused suspicion of ballot stuffing on President Kuchma's behalf in the second round of voting. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "stuffing": ballot box stuffing ♦ bit stuffing ♦ oyster stuffing ♦ stuffing box ♦ stuffing nut ♦ turkey stuffing. Additional references.

Beginning with "stuffing": stuffing-box.

Ending with "stuffing": ballot-stuffing, orifice-stuffing, over-stuffing.

Albanian

mbushje (admission, charge, dressing, fill, filling, loading, packing, pad, padding, pervasion, suffusion), material mbushës (fill, filling, padding). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حشوة الطعام, ‏حشوة (fill, filling, loading, padding, wad, wadding), ‏حشو (charging, dressing, filling, loading, pleonasm, redundance, redundancy, tautology). (various references)

Bulgarian 

уплътняване, тъпчене (shifting, trample), шайба (clout, disc, disk, puck, rigger, sheave, shim, stud, washer), натъпкване (crowding, jam, jamming), пълнене (loading, priming), пълнеж (filling), плънка (farce, filling). (various references)

Chinese 

餡�' (filling), 餡 (forcemeat), 充塞 (Congest, Congested, stuffed). (various references)

Czech

vycpávka (filler, pad, padding, upholstery, wadding), tìsnìní (gasket, seal, washer), nádivka (filling). (various references)

Danish

stoppemateriale (padding). (various references)

Dutch

vulsel (extender, extender pigment), vulling (burden, charge, load), opvulsel. (various references)

Esperanto

farĉo. (various references)

Faeroese

malið kjøt, kjøtdeiggj, fiskamørur. (various references)

Finnish

täyte (dressing, filling, makeweight, padding), mureke (forcemeat). (various references)

French

rembourrage. (various references)

German

polstermaterial (upholstery). (various references)

Greek 

παραγέμισμα (padding, stopgap, wadding). (various references)

Hebrew 

מלית (filling), מלוי (fill, filler, filling, fulfillment, refill), לעיט�" (fattening), פטום (fattened, fattening, filled, mixed, stuffed), חומר מלוי (filler). (various references)

Hungarian

töltelék (filling), zsírozószer, zabálás (blow-out, feeding, gluttony, gorge), tömés (cementation, cram, filling, pad, padding), tömőanyag (padding), megtöltés (loading, refilling), kitömés (padding, wadding), kipárnázás (padding), ingyenpublikum, falás (mouthful), betömés (obturation), bőrolaj. (various references)

Italian

imbottitura (bolster, pad, padding, upholstery, wadding). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

詰まり (after all, blockade, in short, ultimate). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

つまり (after all, blockade, in brief, in other words, in short, in the long run, that is to say, ultimate), つめもの (filling or packing material, padding), つめ (an end, appointment, checkmate, claw, fingernail or toenail, hoof, keep doing for period of time, mate, packing, talon, the foot), はくせい (a stuffed animal, mounting). (various references)

Korean 

채움 (Slaking). (various references)

Manx

pronney (cram, eating greedily, fill, filling, press; overcrowding, ram home, stuff, taxidermy), proghan thoanney. (various references)

Pig Latin

uffingstay.(various references)

Portuguese

taxidermia (taxidermy), recheio (dressing, farce, filling), estofamento (upholstery), enchimento (charging, distension, filling, replenishment, shim, wad, wadding), encher (charge, clog, close, deluge, distend, fill, fill in, fill up, flood, full, heap, impregnate, occupy, overspread, pad, pelt, people, perfuse, saturate, stuff, suffuse, to fill up), empalhamento (casing), ato de estofar. (various references)

Romanian

umpluturã (filling, forcemeat, padding, rubbish), tocãturã (farce, filling, hash, mince), burduşire. (various references)

Russian 

начинка, набивка (compression, filling, gasket, pack, padding, wadding), набивать начинка. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

punjenje (charge, fill, filler, load, loading, padding), nadev. (various references)

Spanish

relleno (blinding, filled, filler, filling, packing, pad, padded, padding, replacement, replenishment, supplement, wadding). (various references)

Swedish

stoppning (darn, darning, pad, padding, upholstery, wadding), uppstoppning (taxidermy), fyllning (dressing, fill, filling, stopping). (various references)

Thai

เครื่องยั�"ไส้อาหาร, มีเซ็กส์ (eeing-to, leg-over). (various references)

Turkish

vatka (wadding), iç (bowels, civil, core, domestic, endo-, guts, in, inland, inlying, inner, inside, interior, internal, intestine, inward, refill, within), güç (ability, arduous, arm, baffling, capability, capacity, clout, clutch, clutches, command, control, difficult, dominance, energy, force, forcefulness, hard, intensity, iron, might, pep, pith, potency, potential, power, punch, rod, sinew, spirit, stamina, steam, sting, strength, sword, tone, tricksy, vigor, vigour, vim, vis, vitality, zing), dolma içi (force-meat), dolgu (core, fillet, filling, inlay, plug, stopping, wadding), özgüven (aplomb, self confidence, self-reliance). (various references)

Ukrainian

начинка (filler), набивка (padding, wadding), простуда (chill, cold). (various references)

fartim. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "stuffing": stuffings. (additional references)

Words ending with "stuffing": overstuffing, restuffing. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stuffing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sluffing. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: fusing, unfits.

-3 letters: fungi, gifts, guffs, sniff, snuff, stiff, sting, stuff, stung, suing, suint, tiffs, tings, tuffs, tungs, unfit, units, using.

-4 letters: figs, fins, fist, fits, fugs, funs, gift, gins, gist, gits, gnus, guff, guns, gust, guts, nits, nuts, sift, sign, sing, snit, snug, stun, suit, sung, tiff, ting, tins, tuff, tugs, tuis.

+1 letter: stuffings.

+2 letters: restuffing, sufflating.

+3 letters: suffocating.

+4 letters: insufflating, overstuffing.

+5 letters: faultfindings, frightfulness, suffocatingly, understaffing.