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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stuffing
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
knock
▪ United had 11 players on World Cup duty in midweek and their travels looked to have knocked the stuffing out of them.
▪ In taking a slug at Mayer, Gilbert had knocked the stuffing out of his own career and, ultimately, his life.
▪ Resentments, rivalry, rebuffs and power struggles appear to have knocked the stuffing out of you and undermined your confidence.
▪ And it does not want to knock the stuffing out of a fragile market.
▪ That knocked the stuffing out of everybody.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
knock the stuffing out of sb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I chewed faster, stuffing my mouth, until Megan hustled me to my feet and escorted me away.
▪ It can be cooked with a variety of seasonings, so I vary the accompaniments such as stuffing and sauces each year.
▪ Once it's cooled, remove any stuffing, strip leftover meat from the bones and refrigerate it.
▪ Stir some into the stuffing for turkey or game birds, or mix with minced meat when making pâté.
▪ The goose, the stuffing, the Christmas pud, they were all realities.
▪ United had 11 players on World Cup duty in midweek and their travels looked to have knocked the stuffing out of them.
▪ Unmould the stuffing, cut it into slices and serve with the duck.
▪ Wipe with a damp cloth and grill them, or top each one with a spoonful of stuffing, then bake.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stuffing

Stuffing \Stuff"ing\, n.

  1. That which is used for filling anything; as, the stuffing of a saddle or cushion.

  2. (Cookery) Any seasoning preparation used to stuff meat; especially, a composition of bread, condiments, spices, etc.; forcemeat; dressing.

  3. A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather.

    Stuffing box, a device for rendering a joint impervious where there is a hole through which a movable cylindrical body, as the paston rod of a steam engine, or the plunger of a pump, slides back and forth, or in which a shaft turns. It usually consists of a box or chamber, made by an enlargement of part of the hole, forming a space around the rod or shaft for containing packing which is compressed and made to fill the space closely by means of a sleeve, called the gland, which fits loosely around the rod, and is pressed upon the packing by bolts or other means.

Stuffing

Stuff \Stuff\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stuffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Stuffing.] [OE. stoffen; cf. OF. estoffer, F. ['e]toffer, to put stuff in, to stuff, to line, also, OF. estouffer to stifle, F. ['e]touffer; both perhaps of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. stop. Cf. Stop, v. t., Stuff, n.]

  1. To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick.

    Sometimes this crook drew hazel bought adown, And stuffed her apron wide with nuts so brown.
    --Gay.

    Lest the gods, for sin, Should with a swelling dropsy stuff thy skin.
    --Dryden.

  2. To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack.

    Put roses into a glass with a narrow mouth, stuffing them close together . . . and they retain smell and color.
    --Bacon.

  3. To fill by being pressed or packed into.

    With inward arms the dire machine they load, And iron bowels stuff the dark abode.
    --Dryden.

  4. (Cookery) To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey.

  5. To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.

    I'm stuffed, cousin; I can not smell.
    --Shak.

  6. To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; -- said of birds or other animals.

  7. To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.

    An Eastern king put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence, and ordered his hide to be stuffed into a cushion, and placed upon the tribunal.
    --Swift.

  8. To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.

  9. To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box). [U. S.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stuffing

1520s, "material used for filling a cushion;" 1530s, "seasoned mixture used to stuff fowls before cooking," verbal noun from stuff (v.) in the sense "fill the inside of a bird before cooking" (late 14c.).

Wiktionary
stuffing

n. 1 The matter used to stuff flexible hollow objects such as pillows and saddles. 2 Any of many food items used to stuff another. 3 A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather. 4 (context internet English) The insertion of many copies of a word into a web page in an attempt to increase its search engine ranking. 5 (cx US finance legal English) A tax loophole whereby a corporation acquires property that will result in a loss of revenue, purely in order to reduce its tax liability. vb. (present participle of stuff English)

WordNet
stuffing
  1. n. a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables [syn: dressing]

  2. padding put in mattresses and cushions and upholstered furniture

Wikipedia
Stuffing

Stuffing, filling, or dressing is an edible substance or mixture, often a starch, used to fill a cavity in another food item while cooking. Many foods may be stuffed, including eggs, poultry, seafood, mammals, and vegetables.

Turkey stuffing often consists of dried bread, in the form of croutons, cubes or breadcrumbs, pork sausage meat, onion, celery, salt, pepper, and other spices and herbs such as summer savoury, sage, or a mixture like poultry seasoning. Giblets are often used. Popular additions in the United Kingdom include dried fruits and nuts (notably apricots and flaked almonds), and chestnuts.

Usage examples of "stuffing".

I burst breathlessly into the kitchen, where the laundress was calmly stuffing clothes into the machine.

The laundress was taking things out of the washing machine and stuffing them in the dryer.

Add enough mashed potatoes to make the required quantity of stuffing, and season with salt, pepper, minced parsley, and melted butter.

Make a stuffing of one cupful of bread-crumbs, one teaspoonful each of melted butter, Worcestershire sauce, tomato catsup, minced parsley, minced onion, minced olives or pickles, lemon-juice, salt, black pepper, and paprika to taste, and sufficient cold water to moisten.

Make a stuffing of one cupful of bread-crumbs, a tablespoonful of melted butter, and salt and pepper to season.

He gazed across the dump, not really seeing the coiled chain, the rusted bedsprings, the chairs with fluffs of stuffing spilling from the sides.

Slim was so flustered, he tucked his hands into his back pockets, then into his front pockets, finally stuffing them under his arms.

Later, there were monstrously huge rabbits hunched in the store, stuffing their mouths, loudly crunching everything, empty cans piled up all around them.

In all stuffing recipes they can be braised or baked whole, along with the bodies.

I came back here for some, and there she was, stuffing things in that ee-normous old shopping bag.

I closed the cookbook on a recipe for turkey stuffing made, so help me, of pine nuts and prunes.

Though the maids varied from year to year, the meal was always the same: canned cream of mushroom soup, turkey, stuffing, canned cranberry jelly, string beans, sweet potatoes topped with marshmallows, salad, Parker House rolls, a huge ice cream mold of a turkey, and chocolate leaves.

The turkey was always tough and stringy, the stuffing dry and mealy, the string beans underdone and a brilliant baking-soda green, the sweet potatoes too sweet and sticky with Karo.

I set the table in the dining room and started the stuffing for the turkey.

Make a stuffing of two cupfuls of bread-crumbs, one cupful of butter, two eggs well beaten, and enough cold water to make a smooth paste.