stuffed
/stʌft/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.96 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of stuff
adj
Broken, not functional; in trouble, in a situation from which one is unlikely to recover.
Australian usage; New Zealand usage; British usage
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonym: stuffed to the gills"
- "Customs officers look closely through a stuffed suitcase."
- "They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.[…]."
- "In unconscious memory of this relationship of animals and innocence, children's rooms are traditionally filled with stuffed animals."
- "Hence, perhaps, the dins Céline deafens us with, in texts more and more stuffed with onomatopoeias."
- "She didn't forget to pack anything, none of those irritating little things that wait till the last moment to pop out of hiding and make her re-open her most stuffed suitcase."
Etymology
From stuff + -ed.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /stʌft/
- British English: /stʌft/
Usage
- Slang
- Australian usage
- New Zealand usage
- British usage
- Informal
Inflected Forms
more stuffed (comparative)
most stuffed (superlative)