stuffingn.
/ˈstʌfɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈstəfɪŋ/ 1.
a. The action of stuff v.1, or the result of this action; †the strengthening of an army or military position (obsolete); filling or cramming with material; gorging, eating to repletion.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [noun] > reinforcing
stuffing1533
supplement1548
renforcing1566
reinforcing1606
reinforcement1609
re-enforcing1611
reincrew1627
enforcement1643
recruit1645
the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [noun] > filling > stuffing or cramming
stuffing1533
stuffage1659
cramming1726
the world > space > relative position > condition of being internal > [noun] > lining > stuffing or padding > provision with
stuffing1533
padding1874
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > [noun]
excessc1386
surfeita1387
surfeiturea1400
surfeity?a1450
replevishingc1450
surfeitnessa1500
surfeiting1519
ingurgitation1531
crapulosity?1538
gurgitation1542
guzzling1642
stuffing1713
crapulousness1850
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1903) II. iv. i. 51 Þe Wolchis & equis brandisand in sa grete Ire for stuffing of verrigo aganis þame [L. ob communitam Verruginem].
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome II. v. xvii. 206 Be stuffing of þe first batallis the myd batall was drawne furth thyn and waik.
1551–2 Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI c. 23 An Acte for the true stuffynge of Featherbeddes, Mattresses, and Quyssheons.
1581 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. III. 377 For the tressonable stuffing and withhalding of certane houssis and strenthis aganis his Hienes.
1594 T. Kyd tr. R. Garnier Cornelia v. 122 To purchase fame to our posterities, By stuffing of our tropheies in their houses.
1713 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 12 Mar. (1948) II. 637 I cannot endure above one dish; nor ever could since I was a Boy and loved Stuffing.
1820 W. Scott Monastery I. ix. 264 These cowled gentry, that think of nothing but quaffing and stuffing!
1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 465 The supplementary stuffings at tuck shops are a fertile source of feeble health.
b. Obstruction of the throat, nose, or chest by catarrh; the sensation produced by this.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorder of respiratory organs > [noun] > stuffiness or obstruction
stuffing1601
stuffage1762
stuffiness1862
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxvi. viii. 250 The same may bee taken..for the stuffing and other imperfections of the breast.
1618 S. Latham New & 2nd Bk. Falconrie xxix. 132 Of the Rye or stuffing in the Head.
1702 Post Man 13–15 Jan. 2/2 (advt.) In a Cough or Cold..where there is Pain, and stuffing in the Head.
1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xviii. 208 Blooded last night for cough and stuffing of chest.
c. The putting of fraudulent votes into a ballot-box. Also ballot stuffing. Cf. stuff v.1 8d.
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [noun] > electoral corruption
pipe-laying1840
vote fraud1904
ballot rigging1908
vote-rigging1909
voter fraud1936
stuffing1976
1976 Birmingham Post 16 Dec. 2/9 Special see-through ballot boxes were used to show that no pre-vote ‘stuffing’ had taken place.
1977 Time 3 Jan. 10/2 Apparently defeated in his first try for the state senate in 1962, he fought to prove ballot stuffing by the boss of Quitman County.
1979 Internat. Jrnl. Sociol. of Law Feb. 71 In actual fact, during the civilian rule, they occasionally employed illegal means..and the stuffing or disappearance of ballot-boxes to help ruling party candidates.
2. † c. figurative (e.g. literary ‘padding’). Obsolete.
a. The material with which a receptacle is stuffed or tightly filled.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being internal > [noun] > lining > stuffing or padding
bolstering1530
stuffing1530
bombasting1603
padding1640
wadding1734
pad1860
the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [noun] > filling > stuffing or cramming > that which serves to
stuffing1530
stuffage1659
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 277/2 Stuffyng of a saddell, bourree.
1575–6 Act 18 Eliz. c. 15 No Goldsmythe..shall..use..Sother Amell or other Stuffinges whatsoever..more then ys necessarie.
1628 tr. P. Matthieu Powerfull Favorite 103 Meate being denied to Drusus, hee had eaten the stuffings of his bed.
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 47 a There are two sorts of Stuffing; the one..with which we fill the hollow..between the two Shells, consisting of Mortar and broken..Stone.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. xli. 157 Four old turkey-worked chairs,..the stuffing staring out.
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward III. xi. 287 In the stuffing of my saddle you will find a rich purse of gold pieces.
1842 J. Aiton Domest. Econ. (1857) 166 A person with the scoop goes immediately before the one who puts in the stuffing [in a drain].
1879 G. B. Goode Catal. Coll. Animal Resources & Fisheries U.S.: Internat. Exhib. 1876 (Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 14) 170 Preparation of curled hair for stuffings.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 532 Russian horse-hair which..had served as stuffing for an easy chair.
b. Cookery. Forcemeat or other seasoned mixture used to fill the body of a fowl, a hollow in a joint of meat, etc., before cooking.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > stuffing > [noun]
stuffc1450
stuffing1538
stoffado1688
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Fartile, stuffynge, or that wherewith any foule is crammed or franked.
1598 tr. G. de Rosselli Epulario H j b If you can deuise a better stuffing, you may: then fry them in oyle.
1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 134 Make a farsing, or stuffing of all manner of sweet Herbs minced very small.
1719 G. London & H. Wise J. de la Quintinie's Compl. Gard'ner (ed. 7) 192 The Leaves of this Plant are very good both in Pottage and in Stuffings.
1846 A. Soyer Gastron. Regenerator 129 Fill the belly of the fish with stuffing.
1887 Spons' Househ. Man. 460 Sauces, Butters, Gravies, Stuffings, &c.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > action of padding > matter used as padding
stuffing1551
bombast1575
fill-space1827
skip1833
padding1861
Polyfilla1979
1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. xxxvi Muche good stuffynge is in thys bulle, whan it iudgeth marryage a fornycacyon.
1602 B. Jonson Poetaster v. i. sig. K Hollow Statues, which the best men are, Without Promethean stuffings reacht from Heauen. View more context for this quotation
1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 41 Men whose learning and beleif lies in marginal stuffings.
1804 Ann. Rev. 2 68/1 The doctor relates such daily occurrences, as would be esteemed too dull and unimportant for what is technically called, stuffing, in a garrison gazette.
d. Advertising pamphlets or literature. U.S.
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1926 Publishers' Weekly 22 May 1712/2 We recommend also less use of stuffing in monthly statements, unless no catalog is mailed out regularly.
e. to knock (also beat, take) the stuffing out of (an animal, person, etc.): to reduce to a state of weakness or flabbiness, take the strength or conceit out of. colloquial.
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1887 F. Francis Saddle & Mocassin 123 Get up!—get up, or I'll beat the stuffing out of you!
1895 Westm. Gaz. 19 July 7/1 We will knock the stuffing out of the parties during the next ten years.
1906 ‘L. Malet’ Far Horizon v. 49 There is nothing to compare with a mésalliance for taking the stuffing out of anyone.
f. to put stuffing into: to add strength or substance to. colloquial.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > strengthening or confirmation of immaterial things > strengthen or confirm immaterial things [verb (transitive)]
strengha1175
strengthc1200
astrengthc1250
strength1340
confirmc1386
affirma1393
forcec1430
renforce?1473
corrobore1485
re-enforcec1485
reinforcec1485
stronga1500
consolidate?a1547
strengthen1546
sinewize1600
sinew1625
confortate1651
nervate1682
scaffolda1693
corroborate1698
substantiate1792
nerve1856
stouten1887
affirm1899
toughen1901
to put stuffing into1938
the mind > will > decision > constancy or steadfastness > adhere constantly or steadfastly to [verb (transitive)] > make steadfast
strongOE
strengthc1200
stablea1300
resolvea1398
sadc1400
nourish?a1425
settle1435
pitha1500
stiffen?a1500
steel1581
toughen1582
ballastc1600
efforta1661
fix1671
balance1685
to fix the mercury1704
instrengthen1855
to put stuffing into1977
1938 P. G. Wodehouse Code of Woosters xiii. 283 Jeeves, go and page Mr. Spode. Tell him I want him to come and put a bit of stuffing into my alibi.
1977 P. Harcourt At High Risk iii. v. 179 The whisky and wine I had drunk weren't making me rash..but they were putting some needed stuffing into me.
1979 J. Sherwood Hour of Hyenas iv. 44 She really puts the stuffing back into these women. Some of them even learn to cope with their dreadful husbands.
3.
a. Leather Manufacturing. The process of rubbing with a mixture of fish-oil and tallow; the mixture used for this.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with skins > [noun] > treating with grease or oil
shamoying1837
stuffing1852
fat-liquoring1931
1852 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) II. 137/2 When the skin is thoroughly cleansed,..the process of stuffing, or dubbing..is performed.
1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 386/2 A stuffing, or dubbing, of cod oil and tallow is rubbed into both sides of the skin.
b. Dyeing. The process of applying a mordant dyestuff to the material to be dyed.
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1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 560/2 The mordanting operation may follow that of dyeing instead of preceding it, in which case the boiling of the wool with dyestuff is termed ‘stuffing’.
1903 Imperial Inst. Techn. Rep. i. 227 By repeating the operations of ‘stuffing’ and ‘saddening’ these cutches give reddish-browns.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
stuffing cloth n.
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1522 in Archaeologia 25 462 Item pd for stuffyng clothe for the plyts [of a gown], xj d.
stuffing work n.
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1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 55 a Pumice Stone..is..the properest..for the stuffing work of Vaults.
C2. † stuffing stick n. Obsolete (see quot. 1688).
stuffing-box n. Machinery a chamber packed with fluid-tight elastic material, through which a piston-rod or shaft is made to pass in order to prevent leakage at the orifice through which it leaves or enters a vessel; similarly stuffing-gland, stuffing ring.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > piston > [noun] > chamber for
stuffing-box1797
1797 J. Curr Coal Viewer 59 Pistons..should be 1/ 2 or 3/ 16 less than the cylinder, the stuffing ring stands 4 inches from the side.
1798 Repertory of Arts (1799) X. 290 C, shews the stuffing-box, through which the spindle must come, to work the chains.
1881 F. Campin Pract. Treat. Mech. Engin. 115 The joint is made steam-tight by enclosing the extremity of the steam-pipe in a stuffing-box.
1885 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 4th Ser. 102/1 The plunger is of stone-ware, accurately ground to fit the stuffing-gland.
stuffing drum n. = stuffing wheel n.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with skins or leather > [noun] > for dressing leather
flesh-board1411
stark1541
stuffing wheel1882
glassing-jacka1884
stuffing drum1897
fleshing-board-
1897 C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather (ed. 2) 221 Freeman's Stuffing Drum.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for making other articles > [noun] > upholstering equipment
stuffing stick1688
tufting-button1884
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. v. 273/1 The Stuffing Stick..is.. made of tough Wood or Iron, being a little bent at the end, with a nick in it; by the help whereof, all parts of the seat of a Cushion, Chair, or Stool, are equally filled.
stuffing wheel n. a revolving hollow drum in which leather is subjected to ‘stuffing’.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with skins or leather > [noun] > for dressing leather
flesh-board1411
stark1541
stuffing wheel1882
glassing-jacka1884
stuffing drum1897
fleshing-board-
1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 389/1 The currier's stuffing wheel.
Draft additions December 2006
Sport (British colloquial). A comprehensive defeat. Also occasionally as a mass noun.
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1980 Times 27 Dec. 16/6 The Luton manager, and one of Chelsea's biggest critics over recent years, said with relish: ‘They really deserve stuffing.’
1987 Times 31 Jan. 46/2 Ball has spiced things up by saying he thinks we're rubbish and that they gave us a stuffing here last time and he's entitled to his opinion.
1989 Guardian (Nexis) 12 Aug. The reality, of course, is still that once more England are on the wrong end of a stuffing, as the Australian machine rolls relentlessly on.
2002 D. Bassett Settling Score x. 176 We dumped Luton out of the FA Cup with a 4-0 stuffing.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
stuffingadj.
/ˈstʌfɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈstəfɪŋ/ In obsolete sense: That stuffs or clogs the organs of breathing; that produces a sense of obstruction; oppressive to the head or lungs.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorder of respiratory organs > [adjective] > stuffiness or obstruction
stuffing1579
stuffy1847
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 635 When they should drawe their breathes, this stuffing ayre and dust came in at their mouthes so fast, that they had much a doe to hold out two dayes.
1653 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged (1656) 98 The scent of the whole Plant [sc. Featherfew] is very strong, and stuffing.
1727 P. Longueville Hermit 19 Stale roasted Roots, which eat much pleasanter than the fresh, and are less stuffing.
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