喜樂美語

核心畫面

One way to hold this word: a hollow thing waiting to be filled, and the soft mass you push into it. Stuffing names what goes in, not what it is made of — bread and herbs inside a bird, cotton inside a bear. Take the mass out and the outside goes flat.

stuffing 可以想成這樣一個畫面：有個空殼在那裡等著被填滿，而你把一團軟軟的東西塞進去。這個字命名的是「塞進去…更多收起stuffing 可以想成這樣一個畫面：有個空殼在那裡等著被填滿，而你把一團軟軟的東西塞進去。這個字命名的是「塞進去的那一份」，不是它的材料。所以麵包和香草塞進雞肚子裡是它，棉花塞進玩偶裡也是它。把那團東西掏出來，外面那層就塌下去了。

From the word’s history

By surface analysis, stuff + -ing: the thing that is stuffed in. That reading fits every filling sense on this page.

字面上是 stuff（塞、填）加 -ing，也就是「被塞進去的那個東西」。這個讀法剛好蓋住這一頁上所有「填充」的意思。

Wiktionary entry for stuffing (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:447903944): "By surface analysis, stuff + -ing."

Two branches

塞進空殼裡的那一份

這一組就是核心畫面本身，只是空殼換來換去：有時候是抱枕，有時候是一隻雞。

noun · B1

Soft material such as cotton, foam or feathers that is put inside a cushion, a soft toy or a piece of furniture to fill it out and make it soft.

填充物

口語：被塞爆的慘敗

這一支要不要接回上面的畫面，手上的資料沒有說明，所以這裡只把它擺著，不硬去連。

noun · C1

A very heavy defeat in a game or a match. This use is slang, and it is used about the side that loses badly: a team gets, takes or is given a stuffing.

慘敗

原始詞典資料9 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

stuffingnoun/ˈstʌfɪŋ/

  • 1

    The matter used to stuff hollow objects such as pillows and saddles.

    • The stuffing is made of synthetic goose down.
  • 2

    Any of many food items used to stuff another.

    • stuffing for a Christmas turkey
  • 3

    The act of stuffing something with another thing.

    • I'll make the sauce if you do the stuffing of the chicken.
  • 4

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

  • 5

    slangSevere defeat.

    • United were given an absolute stuffing by City.
  • 6

    The insertion of many copies of a word into a web page in an attempt to increase its search engine ranking.

  • 7

    businessfinancelawA tax loophole whereby a corporation acquires property that will result in a loss of revenue, purely in order to reduce its tax liability.

  • 8

    vulgarslangAn act of penetrative sexual intercourse.

    • I gave her a good stuffing.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。