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Stuffed vs Plush - What's the difference?

stuffed | plush |

As adjectives the difference between stuffed and plush

is that stuffed is full (with), or packed (with some material or substance) while plush is very extravagant.

As a verb stuffed

is past tense of stuff.

As a noun plush is

a textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet.

stuffed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (stuff)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Full (with), or packed (with some material or substance).
  • :
  • *
  • *:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too..
  • *1997 , Philippe Bonnefis, Paul Weidmann (translator), Céline: The Recall of the Birds , p.109:
  • *:Hence, perhaps, the dins Céline deafens us with, in texts more and more stuffed with onomatopoeias.
  • *2008 , Carn Tiernan, On the Back of the Other Side , p.2:
  • *:She didn?t forget to pack anything, none of those irritating little things that wait till the last moment to pop out of hiding and make her re-open her most stuffed suitcase.
  • *2009 , Marsha Collier, eBay Business All-in-One For Dummies , 2nd Edition, unnumbered page:
  • *:The more stuffed your hard drive, the more Blob-like it becomes.
  • *2009 , David Ugba, Awaken the Riches Within: Creating Extraordinary Wealth Using the Powerful Imagination of a Poet , iUniverse, p.96:
  • *:Creating a poetic or extraordinary belief is the simple act of intensifying the mood or atmosphere of your belief and making it more stuffed with the ability or power to come real.
  • (lb) Full after eating.
  • :
  • *2002 , Sheila M. Reindl, Sensing the Self: Women?s Recovery from Bulimia , p.40:
  • *:Beth says: “I never knew when I was full ?cause I always felt like I didn?t know whether I was hungry or full. My whole life I never knew when I was full or hungry unless I was really stuffed or really starving.”
  • *2009 , Jason McCammon, The Ancient Lands: Warrior Quest: Search for the IFA Scepter , unnumbered page:
  • *:“See, huge meal.” Replied Farra. / “Still stuffed'.” / “Yes, quite ' stuffed .”
  • *2009 , Swapna Dutta, Geeta Menon (editor), Folk Tales of West Bengal , p.47:
  • *:Allhadi gave a contented yawn and said: / “I have eaten till I am really stuffed / I am full and bloated and so puffed / I am bursting, I am telling you true / I couldn?t eat more if you begged me to.”
  • Very tired.
  • *2011 , Nick Oud, The Hatchling and The Human , Xlibris, p.74:
  • *:‘Well, you talked me into it,’ said Cornelius. ‘I feel really stuffed . I can tell you that for sure. So I could do with a bloody good sleep.’
  • Broken, not functional; in trouble, in a situation from which one is unlikely to recover.
  • *1998 , , The Night is for Hunting , 2001, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, unnumbered page:
  • *:If the suspension was stuffed' already from hitting the concrete base of the fence—and it was—then it was really ' stuffed by the time we?d gone a kilometre along the railway.
  • *2002 , Clare de Vries, Of Cats and Kings , p.174:
  • *:But if you don?t play ball in life, if you don?t go for it with a sincere ‘Go, girrrrl’ rugby-tackle attitude, you?re really stuffed .

    • Derived terms

    * get stuffed * stuffed animal, stuffy * stuffed shirt

    plush

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (UK) Very extravagant.
  • (UK) Very expensive, or appearing expensive.
    • They lived in a plush apartment complex.
  • (of a man-made object) Having a soft, fluffy exterior.
    • This plush toy is so cute and soft - I want it!

    Noun

  • A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10 , passage=Mr. Cooke had had a sloop?yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush , and accommodations for keeping things cold.}}
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
    • That night the Boy slept in a different bedroom, and he had a new bunny to sleep with him. It was a splendid bunny, all white plush with real glass eyes, but the Boy was too excited to care very much about it.
  • A (type of) child's toy, usually an animal, filled with soft material.
  • * 2002 , Billboard (volume 114, number 9, 2 March 2002, page 70)
    • When Play Along — the holder of the Care Bears master toy license — placed Care Bears plushes in Spencer Gifts last year, tweens and teenage girls bought the toys.
  • * 2008 , Lionel Birglen, Thierry Laliberté, Clément M. Gosselin, Underactuated Robotic Hands (page 94)
    • For a small fee, the player can control a crane equipped with a gripper to pick a gift, usually a plush or a small toy, and has to drop it in a place where he/she can grab it.
  • * 2011 , Bob Sehlinger, Menasha Ridge, Len Testa, The Unofficial Guide Walt Disney World 2012 (page 759)
    • L.A. Prop Cinema Storage, full of kids' clothing (mostly for girls), PJs, and lots of toys and plushes (there's also a substantial infant area).

    Derived terms

    * plushie * plushly * plushness * plushy * plush toy