Stuffed
[stʌft]
Definition
(adj.) filled with something; 'a stuffed turkey' .
(adj.) crammed with food; 'a full stomach'; 'I feel stuffed' .
Edited by Juanita--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Stuff
Typed by Jennifer
Examples
- He sat in his usual place and attitude like a great stuffed figure. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Have some stuffed veal always, and a fine cheese in cut. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Because there was a stuffed buzzard, Mr. Jennings, in the hall last year. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Then Gutenberg added a handle to the stuffed ball. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The fat turkey was a sight to behold, when Hannah sent him up, stuffed, browned, and decorated. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- We were to have a superb dinner, consisting of a leg of pickled pork and greens, and a pair of roast stuffed fowls. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It was stuffed with papers. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Jo turned hot at the bare idea, and stuffed the whole bundle into her stove, nearly setting the chimney afire with the blaze. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Mr Venus, always in exceedingly low spirits and making whimpering sounds, peers about for the stuffed canary. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The stuffed head of the bull. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Every pocket stuffed with pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I'll put a stuffed partridge on the top of a post, and practise at it, beginning at a short distance, and lengthening it by degrees. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Lastly, the looking-glass reflects Boots and Brewer, and two other stuffed Buffers interposed between the rest of the company and possible accidents. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- At this moment the greasy door is violently pushed inward, and a boy follows it, who says, after having let it slam: 'Come for the stuffed canary. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- On looking around, the whole crowd at the station were watching--and then I knew the rabbit was stuffed! Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Then Pablo stuffed three hobbles he had in his hand into a saddlebag, stood up and said, _Qu?tal_, woman? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Rinaldi carried a holster stuffed with toilet paper. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The clay forms were then broken out, and the shoe stuffed with grass to keep it in shape for use or sale. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- When he returned, he was stuffed with cotton, as limp as limp could be. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- At times he substituted stuffed birds for the metal planes, on the action of which under air pressure his scientific deductions were based. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Of course you expect two brothers to be alike, but not that they should have the same tooth stuffed in the same way. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- And the old tea-chests stuffed and covered for ottomans! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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