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stuff·ing  (stfng)

n.

1. Padding put in cushions and upholstered furniture.

2. Food put into the cavity of a piece of meat or a vegetable that has been hollowed out.

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stuffing [ˈstʌfɪŋ]

n

1. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) the material with which something is stuffed

2. (Cookery) a mixture of chopped and seasoned ingredients with which poultry, meat, etc., is stuffed before cooking

knock the stuffing out of (someone) to upset or dishearten (someone) completely

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stuffing

• forcemeat, farce - A highly seasoned mixture containing chopped meat, forcemeat is an alteration of farcemeat, "stuffing," and has a synonym—farce.
• duxelles - A stuffing made from mushrooms, onions, shallots, and parsley, named after the Marquis d'Uxelles, a 17th-century French nobleman.
• excelsior - The curled shavings of soft wood used for packing and stuffing.
• taxidermy - The stuffing of dead animals.

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Packing of cargo into a container. See also unstuffing.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	stuffing - a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables dressing turkey stuffing - stuffing for turkey oyster dressing, oyster stuffing - stuffing made with oysters forcemeat, farce - mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs concoction, intermixture, mixture - any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients; "he volunteered to taste her latest concoction"; "he drank a mixture of beer and lemonade"
	2.	stuffing - padding put in mattresses and cushions and upholstered furniture batten, batting - stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber cushioning, padding - artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort

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stuffing

noun

1. filling, farce, forcemeat, farcemeat a stuffing for turkey, guinea fowl or chicken

2. wadding, filling, packing, quilting, kapok She made a wig from pillow stuffing.

Translations

stuffing [ˈstʌfɪŋ] N [of furniture, stuffed animal] → relleno m, borra f (Culin) → relleno m
he's got no stuffing → no tiene carácter, no tiene agallas
to knock the stuffing out of sb → dejar a algn para el arrastre
he had the stuffing knocked out of him by the blow → el golpe lo dejó sin fuerzas ni ánimo

stuffing [ˈstʌfɪŋ] n

(in sofa, chair, cushion, mattress) → rembourrage m

(COOKERY) (to eat) → farce f

stuffing

n (of pillow, quilt, Cook) → Füllung f; (of furniture) → Polstermaterial nt; (in taxidermy, toys) → Füllmaterial nt, → Stopfmaterial nt; to knock the stuffing out of somebody (inf) → jdn fertigmachen (inf), → jdn schaffen (inf)

stuffing [ˈstʌfɪŋ] n (in cushion) → imbottitura (Culin) → farcia, ripieno
to knock the stuffing out of sb (subj, boxer, blow) → mettere al tappeto