1. A mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables
   "She prepared a sage and onion stuffing for the turkey";
   - dressing [N. Amer]
    
2. Padding put in mattresses and cushions and upholstered furniture
   "The old couch needed new stuffing to be comfortable again"

1. (cooking) fill with a stuffing while cooking
   "Have you stuffed the turkey yet?";
   - farce
    
2. Fill tightly with a material
   "stuff a pillow with feathers"
    
3. Cram into a cavity
   "The child stuffed candy into his pockets"
    
4. Press or force
   "Stuff money into an envelope";
   - thrust, shove, squeeze
    
5. Fill or become filled to the point of obstruction
   "My nose is all stuffed";
   - choke up, block
    
6. Eat excessively or gluttonously
   "She stuffed herself at the dinner";
   - gorge, ingurgitate [rare], overindulge, glut, englut [archaic], engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise [Brit], gourmandize, binge [informal], pig out [informal], satiate, gourmandise [Brit]
    
7. Treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting
   "stuff a bearskin"

Derived forms: stuffings

Type of: back up, choke, choke off, clog, clog up, concoction, congest, cram, cushioning, eat, fill, fill up, force, foul, impregnate, intermixture, mixture, padding, push, saturate

Encyclopedia: Stuffing