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stuffing

verbnounattested in dialogue

  • Canada//ˈstʌfɪŋ//
  • Australia//ˈstɐfɪŋ//
  • //ˈstʊfɪŋ//
  • //ˈstʊfɪŋɡ//
  • //ˈstəʌfɪŋ//

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

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of stuffpresent participle and gerund of stuff

Etymology

By surface analysis, stuff + -ing.

noun

  1. 1

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

    The stuffing is made of synthetic goose down.

  2. 2

    Any of many food items used to stuff another.

    stuffing for a Christmas turkey

  3. 3

    The act of stuffing something with another thing.

    I'll make the sauce if you do the stuffing of the chicken.

  4. 4

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

  5. 5

    slangSevere defeat.

    United were given an absolute stuffing by City.

  6. 6

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

  7. 7

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

  8. 8

    slangAn act of penetrative sexual intercourse.

    I gave her a good stuffing.

Forms

plural
stuffings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).