stuffing

n. mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meat or vegetables (made of breadcrumb or rice with spices, herbs or vegetables); feathers or fabric used for filling for pillows; loading of goods into a container (Slang)

v. force into a container or opening, cram; fill with some type of stuffing; fill an animal hide with material that preserves its shape; eat a large amount of food, gorge

In cooking, stuffing is usually a mixture of various ingredients used to fill a cavity in another food item. The term stuffing also refers to the process of filling a cavity with this mixture.
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Noun
1. a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables
(synonym) dressing
(hypernym) concoction, mixture, intermixture
(hyponym) turkey stuffing
(derivation) stuff
2. padding put in mattresses and cushions and upholstered furniture
(hypernym) padding, cushioning
(hyponym) batting, batten

Noun
1. the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"
(synonym) material
(hypernym) substance, matter
(hyponym) rind
2. miscellaneous unspecified objects; "the trunk was full of stuff"
(synonym) whatchamacallit, whatsis, sundry, sundries
(hypernym) object, physical object
(hyponym) dohickey, dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, hickey, gizmo, gismo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingumabob, thingmabob, thingamajig, thingumajig, thingmajig, thingummy
3. informal terms for personal possessions; "did you take all your clobber?"
(synonym) clobber
(hypernym) personal property, personal estate, personalty, private property
4. senseless talk; "don't give me that stuff"
(synonym) stuff and nonsense, hooey, poppycock
(hypernym) nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum
(classification) cant, jargon, slang, lingo, argot, patois, vernacular
5. unspecified qualities required to do or be something; "the stuff of heros"; "you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine"
(hypernym) quality
6. information in some unspecified form; "it was stuff I had heard before"; "there's good stuff in that book"
(hypernym) information, info
7. a critically important or characteristic component; "suspense is the very stuff of narrative"
(hypernym) kernel, substance, core, center, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty
Verb
1. fill completely; "The child stuffed his pockets with candy"
(hypernym) fill, fill up, make full
(hyponym) jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad
2. press or force; "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand"
(synonym) thrust, shove, squeeze
(hypernym) push, force
3. obstruct; "My nose is all stuffed"; "Her arteries are blocked"
(synonym) lug, choke up, block
(antonym) unstuff, loosen up
(hypernym) clog, choke off, clog up, back up, congest, choke, foul
4. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on icecream"
(synonym) gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out
(hypernym) eat
5. treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting; "stuff a bearskin"
(hypernym) impregnate, saturate
(entail) tan
6. fill tightly with a material; "stuff a pillow with feathers"; "The old lady wants to have her dead poodle stuffed by the taxidermist"
(hypernym) fill, fill up, make full
(hyponym) cork
(derivation) taxidermist, animal stuffer, stuffer
7. fill with a stuffing while cooking; "Have you stuffed the turkey yet?"
(hypernym) fill, fill up, make full
(derivation) stuffing, dressing
(classification) cooking, cookery, preparation

(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Stuff
  

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

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

(n.)
A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather.
  

See bit stuffing, de-stuffing.