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stuffer|ˈstʌfə(r)|
[f. stuff v.1 + -er1.]
1. A person who stuffs or fills; one whose trade it is to stuff (e.g.) dead animals or cushions.
1611Cotgr., Embourreur, a stuffer, bumbaster, or puffer vp of things with flockes, haire, &c. 1694Motteux Rabelais v. Prognost. v. 236 Stuffers and Bumbasters of Pack-saddles. 1862Jukes Stud. Man. Geol. (ed. 2) 411 note, To speak of scientific men as ‘mere beetle-hunters and bird-stuffers’. 1893W. H. Hudson Idle Days Patagonia xii. 185 In museums..the stuffer's work is endurable because useful. 1905Daily Chron. 16 Mar. 8/7 Upholsterer.—Good stuffer wants Job.
2. A machine or implement used for stuffing.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., Stuffer, a machine for packing or filling; as, i. A machine for stuffing horse-collars. 1883R. Haldane Workshop Rec. Ser. ii. 445/2 [The tomatoes] are fed by the ‘stuffer’, a cylinder worked by a treadle, into the cans. 1909Teachers' Assembly Herald 13 Apr. 19/1 Other tools [for bird-stuffing]..long stuffers, bone-cutters.
3. An advertising leaflet or similar material enclosed with other literature, esp. when sent by post.
1942[see filler1 2]. 1971Oxf. Univ. Gaz. (Ann. Rep. Delegates Univ. Press) 5 The Promotion Department had to prepare, produce, and distribute 875,000 stuffers, 550,000 prospectuses. 1972Publishers Weekly 31 Jan. 94/3 The prices they wish printed on the mailing piece, circular, stuffer, etc. 1976New Yorker 12 Apr. 120/3 There was a program stuffer with a word-and-picture collage printed on one side and a full chronology of Tharp choreographies on the other.
Add:4. A person who smuggles drugs through Customs by concealment in a bodily passage such as the rectum or vagina. Cf. *swallower n. 1 c. colloq.
1983Listener 28 July 3/3 The customs teams delicately refer to such smugglers as ‘the swallowers and stuffers’. 1986Sunday Times 26 Oct. 3/2 Investigators at Heathrow Airport have discovered more than 100 Nigerians..attempting to smuggle heroin packed inside contraceptive sheaths, which are swallowed or inserted in anal and vaginal passages. They are known..as ‘stuffers and swallowers’. 1992Independent 29 Sept. 13/3 ‘Stuffers’, as opposed to ‘swallowers’, will use any orifice available. |