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stuffed, ppl. a.|stʌft|
[f. stuff v.1 + -ed1.]
1.
†a. Well stored or provided (obs.).
b. In later use, of a receptacle: Filled full, crammed; also with out.
c1440Promp. Parv. 481/1 Stuffyd wythe stoore, instauratus. 1483Caxton Cato 2 b, A noble and well stuffed lybrary. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 497 That huge Bombard of Sacke, that stuft Cloake-bagge of Guts. 1642Milton Apol. Smect. 11 His own stufft magazin, and hoard of slanderous inventions. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. vi. v, Men of Agio,..with stuffed purses. 1898B. Gregory Side Lights 495 Rescued..from the stuffed-out wallet of oblivion.
†c. stuffed man: A wealthy man, a man of substance. Obs.
c1400Beryn 1730 The Burgeys was a stuffid man, þere lakkid noon deynte.
†d. fig. Full, complete. Obs.
1611Shakes. Wint. T. ii. i. 185, I haue dispatch'd in post,..Cleomines and Dion, whom you know Of stuff'd-sufficiency.
2. Of a garment, cushion, or the like: Filled out with some distending or stiffening material. Also with out.
1467Songs Costume (Percy Soc.) 57 Leve your short stuffede dowblettes and your pleytid gownys. 1650Weldon Crt. Jas. I (1651) 164 His Breeches in great pleits and full stuffed. 1828Lytton Pelham liii, One of N―'s best stuffed coats. 1856Olmsted Slave States 327 A stuffed easy-chair. 1858J. Baron Scudamore Organs 53 The floor-sweeping and stuffed-out dresses of ladies, in juxtaposition with the short and scant garments of the poorer women. 1892E. Reeves Homeward Bound 225 Our donkeys had no saddles: a stuffed sack was fastened on mine.
3. Of a dead animal, its skin: Filled with cotton, tow, etc., so as to preserve it and present the natural form of the living animal.
1595Shakes. John i. i. 141 And if..My armes [were] such eele-skins stuft. 1789Mrs. Piozzi Journ. France I. 11 The great stuffed dog is a curiosity. 1818Scott Rob Roy v, Huge antlers of deer,..interspersed with the stuffed skins of badgers,..and other animals of the chase. 1852Dickens Bleak Ho. xxxvii, Two stuffed and dried fish in glass cases.
4. Of a fowl, joint, fish, etc.: Filled with force-meat or minced seasoning before cooking. stuffed eggs: see quot. 1883.
1729H. Carey Poems (ed. 3) 128 He gave her a Collation of Buns, Cheesecakes, Gammon of Bacon, Stuff'd-beef, and Bottled-Ale. 1852R. B. Mansfield Log Water Lily 25 A stuffed goose and other delicacies. 1883Amer. Dishes 193 Stuffed Eggs.—Cut six hard-boiled eggs in two. Take out the yolks and mash them fine. Add two teaspoonfuls of butter, one of cream... Mix all thoroughly. Fill the eggs from the mixture, and put them together.
5. Stopped up, obstructed; said esp. of a bodily organ when diseased. Of the head or brain: Oppressed by a feeling of obstruction. Also with up.
1584Cogan Hav. Health cxi. 99 Almonde butter..good for a stuffed brest. 1711Swift Jrnl. to Stella 1 Sept., My head is pretty well, only..sometimes it feels very stufft. 1772Lady M. Coke Jrnl. 15 Jan. (1896) IV. 10 Her head was so stuff'd that She was obliged to hold her head over hot water. 1855Browning Andrea del Sarto 80 In their vexed, beating, stuffed and stopped-up brain. 1904Sladen Playing the Game ii. ix, Rich never could sing in tune, and he whistled like a stuffed-up dog-whistle.
fig.1605Shakes. Macb. v. iii. 44 And with some sweet Obliuious Antidote Cleanse the stufft bosome, of that perillous stuffe Which weighes vpon the heart.
6. Phr. get stuffed: used as a coarse imprecation. Cf. stuff v.1 15 a, b.
1952M. Tripp Faith is Windsock x. 155 ‘Get stuffed,’ he said savagely. 1968M. Richler in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories 2nd Ser. 188 ‘Why don't you tell Leopold to go get stuffed?’ ‘Because we need the foreign currency.’ 1975Weekend Mag. 1 Nov. 16/2 [He] told the Tories in so many words to get stuffed; he had no intention of telling them anything important, he proposed to deal only with the government. 1979R. Rendell Make Death love Me vii. 69 Who're you giving orders to? You can get stuffed.
7. Special collocations: stuffed monkey, a type of biscuit or cake made with almonds; stuffed olive, a stoned (usu. green) olive filled with pimento; stuffed owl [from the title of an anthology, ult. derived from Wordsworth's Misc. Sonnets iii. xiii], used attrib. with reference to poetry which treats trivial or inconsequential subjects in a grandiose manner; hence stuffed-owlish a.; stuffed pepper, a cooked dish of green or red pepper (capsicum) de-seeded and filled with tomatoes, rice, meat, etc.; stuffed shirt colloq. (orig. U.S.), one who is pompous and conservative, but usu. ineffectual; hence stuffed-shirted a.; stuffed-shirtedness; stuffed vine leaves, an eastern (esp. Greek or Turkish) dish consisting of vine leaves wrapped round a savoury mixture of rice, onion, etc.
1892I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto I. 14 The confectioners' shops, crammed with ‘stuffed monkeys’ and ‘bolas’. 1943A. L. Simon Conc. Encycl. Gastron. IV. 127/2 Stuffed Monkey (S. Africa... Place the one half on a flat baking-sheet, cover with the filling or stuffing... Put the other half of the pastry over the filling; press the edges firmly together. 1962Listener 11 Jan. 107/3 ‘Stuffed monkey’ is a rich cake popular on the Continent. 1967K. Giles Death in Diamonds iv. 78 Another cupper and a plate of stuffed monkeys.
1897Kipling Capt. Cour. ix. 198 Try a stuffed olive. 1920[see angel('s)-food (cake) s.v. angel n. B. 2]. 1967P. Jones Fifth Defector i. 4 He took a smallish savoury, a stuffed olive, and popped it into his mouth.
[1930Wyndham Lewis & Lee (title) The stuffed owl: an anthology of bad verse.] 1941Blunden Thomas Hardy xii. 264 Hardy's poems..have their share of stuffed-owl simplicities. 1957R. A. Knox On Eng. Translation 12, I will not entertain you..with choice specimens of really stuffed-owl renderings in this field; such as that famous translation from the Italian, about the medieval story of a woman who was turned into a horse.
1960Guardian 13 May 6/7 Of the longer pieces, ‘The Cruel Place’ is the most stuffed⁓owlish.
1864V. Davis Let. 8 Oct. in C. V. Woodward Mary Chesnut's Civil War (1981) xxvii. 663 Colonel Lubbock was funny about your breakfast—and your stuffed peppers. 1960‘E. McBain’ Killer's Payoff ix. 89, I was going to call you for that stuffed-pepper recipe..you used for the last buffet. 1978H. Kaplan Damascus Cover vii. 69 Boys..carried trays laden with soup and stuffed peppers.
1913W. Cather O, Pioneers! 144 He characterized Frank Shabata by a Bohemian expression which is the equivalent of stuffed shirt. 1939C. Day Lewis Child of Misfortune iii. iii. 287 These women and their stuff-shirt escorts. 1969Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 23 Feb. 7/1 He had no time at all for the ‘stuffed-shirt’ types which were beginning to show in the north [of Canada]. 1976Country Life 26 Feb. 496/3 The American President (a stuffed shirt) and two visiting Arab oil sheiks are held to ransom.
1977A. J. Ayer Part of my Life viii. 197 The head of the section, who disliked Cummings for his indifference to spit and polish and his preference for the company of the French cook and mechanics to that of the more stuffed-shirted Americans.
1981‘J. Ross’ Dark Blue & Dangerous xxii. 127 You sounded so awfully priggish..stuff-shirted..I do like you..in spite of your stuff-shirtedness.
1939A. Heath Open Sesame 120 Vine Leaves, Stuffed. 1978H. Kaplan Damascus Cover xv. 148 A man sitting on a straw stool eating stuffed vine leaves sunk in goat's milk. |
