Stuffed vs Snuffed - What's the difference?
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(stuff)
Full (with), or packed (with some material or substance).
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*: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 ,
*: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,
*: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,
*: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.
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*2002 , Sheila M. Reindl, Sensing the Self: Women?s Recovery from Bulimia ,
*: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 ,
*:“See, huge meal.” Replied Farra. / “Still stuffed'.” / “Yes, quite ' stuffed .”
*2009 , Swapna Dutta, Geeta Menon (editor), Folk Tales of West Bengal ,
*: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,
*:‘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,
*: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 ,
*: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 .
(snuff)
Finely]] [[grind, ground or pulverized tobacco intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose.
Fine-ground or minced tobacco, dry or moistened, intended for use by placing a pinch behind the lip or beneath the tongue; see also snus.
* 1896 , Universal Dictionary of the English Language :
A snort or sniff of fine-ground, powdered, or pulverized tobacco.
The act of briskly inhaling by the nose; a sniff, a snort.
Resentment or skepticism expressed by quickly drawing air through the nose; snuffling; sniffling.
(obsolete) Snot, mucus.
(obsolete) Smell, scent, odour.
To inhale through the nose.
* Dryden
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To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offence.
* Bishop Hall
The burning part of a candle wick, or the black, burnt remains of a wick (which has to be periodically removed).
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* Jonathan Swift
(obsolete) Leavings in a glass after drinking; heel-taps.
(attributive) Pertaining to a form of pornographic film which involves someone's actually being murdered.
To extinguish a candle or oil-lamp flame by covering the burning end of the wick until the flame is suffocated.
(obsolete) To trim the burnt part of a candle wick.
* 1817 , , Northanger Abbey , [http://books.google.com/books?id=9QQ9AAAAYAAJ&dq=%22snuffed%20and%20extinguished%20in%20one%22&pg=PA205#v=onepage&q=snuffed&f=false]:
(slang) To kill a person; to snuff out.
As verbs the difference between stuffed and snuffed
is that stuffed is (stuff) while snuffed is (snuff).As an adjective stuffed
is full (with), or packed (with some material or substance).stuffed
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Verb
(head)Adjective
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Derived terms
* get stuffed * stuffed animal, stuffy * stuffed shirtsnuffed
English
Verb
(head)snuff
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Etymology 1
Related to .Noun
- Dry snuffs' are often adulterated with quicklime, and moist ' snuffs , as rappee, with ammonia, hellebore, pearl-ash, etc.
Derived terms
* up to snuffVerb
(en verb)- He snuffs the wind, his heels the sand excite.
- Napoleon paced to and fro in silence, occasionally snuffing at the ground.
- Do the enemies of the church rage and snuff ?
Etymology 2
Origin uncertain.Noun
(-)- his memory stinks like the snuff of a candle when it is put out […].
- If the burning snuff happens to get out of the snuffers, you have a chance that it may fall into a dish of soup.
Derived terms
* snuff-dish * snuff film * snuff movie * snuffterVerb
(en verb)- The dimness of the light her candle emitted made her turn to it in alarm; but there was no danger of its sudden extinction, it had yet some hours to burn; and that she might not have any greater difficulty in distinguishing the writing than what its ancient date might occasion, she hastily snuffed' it. Alas! it was ' snuffed and extinguished in one.