Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

the stuffing out of

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.47 in modern English

Syllables: the stuff-in-g out of
IPA

29

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

Used as an intensifier between a verb and its object: thoroughly, with vigour, to an intense degree.

Informal

Example Sentences

"If you ever use that kind of language in front of my girlfriend again, I am going to beat the stuffing out of you."
"Chelsea knocked the stuffing out of Brighton well before the final whistle when they beat them 1–3 at Brighton."
"The U.S. ski team beat the stuffing out of the Austrians in Alpine, but Norway took the gold home in Nordic."
""This knocks what is vulgarly termed 'the stuffing' out of the case for the prosecution," observed Carlyle, who had been taking a note."
"Added to these woes was the Treasury's demands for across-the-board train operator cost-cutting of broadly 10%. Passenger rail's slow, patchy and fragile recovery had the stuffing knocked out of it once more."

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

the stuffings out of (alternative)

Synonyms

seven bells out of seven hells out of the bejeebers out of the bejesus out of the crap out of the daylight out of the daylights out of the devil out of the dickens out of the flying fuck out of the fuck out of the fuckola out of

Questions

What does the stuffing out of mean?: Used as an intensifier between a verb and its object: thoroughly, with vigour, to an intense degree.

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