Stuffed vs Stiffed - What's the difference?
stuffed | stiffed |
(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 .
(stiff)
Of an object, rigid, hard to bend, inflexible.
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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff , retroussé moustache.
(lb) Of policies and rules and their application and enforcement, inflexible.
Of a person, formal in behavior, unrelaxed.
(lb) Harsh, severe.
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Of muscles, or parts of the body, painful, as a result of excessive, or unaccustomed exercise.
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Potent.
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Dead, deceased.
Of a penis, erect.
An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education, often a working stiff''''' or ''lucky '''stiff .
A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle.
(slang) A cadaver, a dead person.
(US) A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill.
Any hard hand where it is possible to exceed 21 by drawing an additional card.
To fail to pay that which one owes (implicitly or explicitly) to another, especially by departing hastily.
* 1946 , William Foote Whyte, Industry and Society , page 129
* 1992 , Stephen Birmingham, Shades of Fortune , page 451
* 2007 , Mary Higgins Clark, I Heard That Song Before , page 154
As verbs the difference between stuffed and stiffed
is that stuffed is past tense of stuff while stiffed is past tense of stiff.As an adjective stuffed
is full (with), or packed (with some material or substance).stuffed
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Derived terms
* get stuffed * stuffed animal, stuffy * stuffed shirtstiffed
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(head)stiff
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(er)Quotations
* (English Citations of "stiff")Derived terms
* stiffyNoun
(en noun)- A Working Stiff' s Manifesto: A Memoir of Thirty Jobs I Quit, Nine That Fired Me, and Three I Can't Remember was published in 2003.
- She convinced the stiff to go to her hotel room, where her henchman was waiting to rob him.
See also
* bindlestiff * See also ,Verb
(en verb)- Realizing he had forgotten his wallet, he stiffed the taxi driver when the cab stopped for a red light.
- We asked one girl to explain how she felt when she was "stiffed ." She said, You think of all the work you've done and how you've tried to please [them…].
- You see, poor Nonie really was stiffed' by Adolph in his will. He really ' stiffed her , Rose, and I really wanted to right that wrong.
- Then he stiffed the waiter with a cheap tip.
