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单词 stuffer
释义

stuffern.

Brit. /ˈstʌfə/, U.S. /ˈstəfər/
Etymology: < stuff v.1 + -er suffix1.
1. A person who stuffs or fills; one whose trade it is to stuff (e.g.) dead animals or cushions.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker performing process or spec. task > [noun] > who stuffs
bombaster1611
stuffer1611
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > maker of furniture or furnishings > [noun] > one performing other specific processes
stuffer1611
tufter1916
the world > animals > zoology > taxidermy > [noun] > taxidermist
preserver1771
taxidermist1828
stuffer1862
naturalist1863
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Embourreur, a stuffer, bumbaster, or puffer vp of things with flockes, haire, &c.
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. Pantagr. Prognost. 236 Stuffers and Bumbasters of Pack-saddles.
1862 J. B. Jukes Student's Man. Geol. (ed. 2) 411 (note) To speak of scientific men as ‘mere beetle-hunters and bird-stuffers’.
1893 W. H. Hudson Idle Days Patagonia xii. 185 In museums..the stuffer's work is endurable because useful.
1905 Daily Chron. 16 Mar. 8/7 Upholsterer.—Good stuffer wants Job.
2. A machine or implement used for stuffing.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > packing, stuffing, or filling equipment
pack-sheet1533
packing sheet1545
packer1846
shim1860
parcelling machine1875
stuffer1875
woolpacker1875
filler1895
bagger1896
shimmer-
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stuffer, a machine for packing or filling; as, i. A machine for stuffing horse-collars.
1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts 2nd Ser. 445/2 [The tomatoes] are fed by the ‘stuffer’, a cylinder worked by a treadle, into the cans.
1909 Teachers' 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.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > publishing or spreading by leaflets or notices > [noun] > circularizing > circular
prospectus1765
circular1818
stuffer1942
1942 H. A. Maddox Dict. Stationery (ed. 2) 40 Filler, (also known as stuffer), a small inset which is used nowadays as a popular advertising device to enclose in letters or with other literature. A cheap and effective medium of publicity with a saving of postal cost.
1971 Oxf. Univ. Gaz. (Ann. Rep. Delegates Univ. Press) 5 The Promotion Department had to prepare, produce, and distribute 875,000 stuffers, 550,000 prospectuses.
1972 Publishers Weekly 31 Jan. 94/3 The prices they wish printed on the mailing piece, circular, stuffer, etc.
1976 New 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.

Draft additions 1997

4. A person who smuggles drugs through Customs by concealment in a bodily passage such as the rectum or vagina. Cf. swallower n. Additions c. colloquial.
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society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > smuggler > of certain goods
owler1690
runner1719
flasker1816
opium smuggler1841
rum runner1917
dope-smuggler1937
buttlegger1945
stuffer1983
swallower1983
1983 Listener 28 July 3/3 The customs teams delicately refer to such smugglers as ‘the swallowers and stuffers’.
1986 Sunday 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’.
1992 Independent 29 Sept. 13/3Stuffers’, as opposed to ‘swallowers’, will use any orifice available.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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