stuffing
US: /ˈstəfɪŋ/
UK: /stˈʌfɪŋ/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
stuffing /'stʌfiɳ/- danh từ
- sự nhồi
- chất (để) nhồi
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun [U]1 (AmE also dressing) a mixture of finely chopped food, such as bread, onions and herbs, placed inside a chicken, etc. before it is cooked to give it flavour
2 soft material used to fill cushions, toys, etc.
Idioms see KNOCK v.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 substance, material, matter, fabric, ingredients, essence, essentials, fundamentals, building blocks, makings:
This is the stuff that dreams are made on. Is hydrogen the basic stuff of the universe?
2 equipment, goods, gear, trappings, kit, tackle, accessories, paraphernalia, accoutrements or US also accouterments, effects, belongings, possessions, things, bits and pieces, impedimenta, baggage, property, chattels, furniture, Brit lumber, Colloq junk, rubbish, crap, Brit clobber, Taboo Slang shit:
Graham left all his stuff with his mother when he went west.
3 spirit, attitude, grit, substance, makings, talent(s), abilities, capabilities, qualities, attributes:
Is Simon the stuff of which commandos are made?
4 nonsense, trash, rubbish, stuff and nonsense, twaddle, humbug, bunkum, tommy-rot, balderdash, Colloq rot, garbage, bunk, tripe, poppycock, crap, malarkey, boloney or baloney, bosh, hogwash, swill, claptrap, piffle, hot air, flapdoodle, fiddle-faddle, codswallop, bull, US horse feathers, Taboo Slang bullshit, horseshit:
You don't believe all that stuff you've been reading about me, do you?
5 creations, accomplishments, things, works, materials, matter:
Without the attributions, I'd have trouble telling their stuff apart.
v.
6 jam, ram, cram, crowd, compress, pack, press, squeeze, squash, shove, thrust, force:
You couldn't stuff another handkerchief into that suitcase.
7 line, fill, pack:
Stuff the chicken with the following mixture.
8 overeat, gorge, overindulge, gormandize, gluttonize, Colloq make a pig or a hog of oneself:
They really stuffed themselves at the wedding reception.
9 stuff up. clog, plug, obstruct, choke, block (up), stop or US also pack up:
Phone the plumber: the drain is stuffed up again. The cold had given her a headache and a stuffed-up nose.
Concise dictionary
stuffings'stʌfɪŋnoun
+a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables
+padding put in mattresses and cushions and upholstered furniture
stuffs|stuffed|stuffingstʌf
noun
+the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
+miscellaneous unspecified objects
+informal terms for personal possessions
+senseless talk
+unspecified qualities required to do or be something
+information in some unspecified form
+a critically important or characteristic component
verb
+fill completely
+press or force
+obstruct
+overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
+treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting
+fill tightly with a material
+fill with a stuffing while cooking
