stuffed

Full or packed (with some material or substance).

Adjective

  1. Full or packed (with some material or substance).
    • 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...

    Synonyms: stuffed to the gills

  2. Filled with a filling and seasoning.
    • We're having stuffed turkey for dinner.
    • The turkey is stuffed with a stuffing made of bread and herbs.
  3. Full after eating.
    • Near-synonym: stuffed to the gills
    • Stuffed children sleep poorly.
    • Beth says: "I never knew when I was full 'cause I always felt like I didn't know whether I was hungry or full. My whole life I never knew when I was full or hungry unless I was really stuffed or really starving." -...

    Synonyms: stuffed to the gills

  4. Very tired.
    • 'Well, you talked me into it,' said Cornelius. 'I feel really stuffed. I can tell you that for sure. So I could do with a bloody good sleep.' - 2011, Nick Oud, The Hatchling and The Human, Xlibris, page 74:

    Synonyms: exhausted weary bleareyed bleary bleary-eyed bone-tired bushed tired out spent wrecked drained dog-tired dog-weary fatigued forfairn forlagen forworn heavyeyed jaded languid enervated out of gas played out run-down

  5. Broken, not functional; in trouble, in a situation from which one is unlikely to recover.
    • If the suspension was stuffed already from hitting the concrete base of the fence—and it was—then it was really stuffed by the time we'd gone a kilometre along the railway. - 1998, John Marsden, The Night is for...
    • But if you don't play ball in life, if you don′t go for it with a sincere 'Go, girrrrl' rugby-tackle attitude, you're really stuffed. - 2002, Clare de Vries, Of Cats and Kings, page 174:
    • Although the 14-inch Standard that Yamato targets is stuffed, and maybe the one after that, a prolonged bombardment by a Colorado-class is not gonna do good things to anything - doesn't really matter who you are. - 2019...

    Synonyms: busted knackered bad borked broken broken-down bum bung cactused crocked dead Donald Ducked down duff faulty flaky FUBAR fucked fuckered up inoperative janky jiggered kaput malfunctioning

Origin

Etymology tree English stuff English -ed English stuffed From stuff + -ed.

Forms

more stuffed most stuffed

Derived

get stuffed overstuffed stuffed animal stuffed ham stuffed like a turkey stuffedness stuffed-shirt stuffed shirt stuffed to the gills stuffed toy stuffed up understuffed unstuffed

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of stuff