单词 | stuffer |
释义 | stuffern. 1. A person who stuffs or fills; one whose trade it is to stuff (e.g.) dead animals or cushions. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 13/3 ‘Stuffers’, 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). < n.1611 |
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