Stuffed

//stʌft// adj, verb, slang

adj, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Verb

1
simple past and past participle of stuff form-of, participle, past

Adjective

1
Full or packed (with some material or substance).
"Near-synonym: stuffed to the gills"
2
Filled with a filling and seasoning.
"We're having stuffed turkey for dinner."
3
Full after eating. slang
"Near-synonym: stuffed to the gills"
4
Very tired. Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, informal
"'Well, you talked me into it,' said Cornelius. 'I feel really stuffed. I can tell you that for sure. So I could do with a bloody good sleep.'"
5
Broken, not functional; in trouble, in a situation from which one is unlikely to recover. Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK
"If the suspension was stuffed already from hitting the concrete base of the fence—and it was—then it was really stuffed by the time we'd gone a kilometre along the railway."

Adjective

1
filled with something wordnet
2
crammed with food wordnet

Synonyms

full busted fucked jiggered knackered out of gas

Antonyms

Example

"The drawer is stuffed full of odds and ends."

Etymology

From stuff + -ed.

Related phrases

get stuffed stuffed animal stuffed ham stuffed like a turkey stuffed shirt stuffed to the gills stuffed toy stuffed up stuffed-shirt

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