stuffing, n. 1. filling, filler, padding, packing, wadding.
2. dressing, Cookery, forcemeat, Cookery, farce-meat or farce.
3. Informal, insides, internals, inwards, Inf. innards, Sl. guts.
stuffy, adj. 1. close, poorly ventilated, ill-ventilated; airless, stifling, suffocating, sultry, oppressive; stale, musty, moldy, mildewy, fusty, frowzy, Brit. Inf. frowsty.
2. dull, dull as dishwater, uninteresting, boring, bore-some, tedious, tiresome, wearisome, Inf. ho-hum; dry, dry-as-dust, Sl. deadly, Sl. dead; flat, bland, insipid, vapid, jejune, Sl. for the birds, Sl. nothing, Sl. blah; ponderous, elephantine, wooden.
3. pompous, self-important, impressed with oneself, pedantic; puffed up, inflated, swollen; proud, conceited, egocentric, narcissistic, self-centered, self-admiring, self-esteeming, Sl. stuck or hung up on oneself; haughty, snobbish, on one's high horse, high-and-mighty, too good for the rest of us, Inf. high-hat, Inf nose-in-the-air, Sl. snooty, Sl. snotty, Sl. sniffy, Sl. stuck-up.
4. stodgy, old-fashioned, old-fogyish, Inf fuddy-duddy; rigid, stiff, starched, stiff-necked, Inf uptight; prudish, nice-nelly, priggish, prim, prim and proper, proper, puritanical, old-maidish; conservative, straitlaced, Inf straight, Inf square.
stultify, v. 1. smother, stifle, suffocate, muzzle, strangle; suppress, repress, frustrate, thwart; neutralize, nullify, negate, cancel, annul, invalidate, Sl. nip in the bud, Sl. put the kibosh on.
2. make a fool of, Sl. make a monkey of, Brit. Sl. make a mug of, Sl. put [s.o.] on, Sl. play for a sucker,
stumble, v. 1. trip, fall, fall down, fall flat on cne's face, tumble, take a spill, Inf. take a header, Inf. come a cropper; stagger, lurch, pitch, careen, Brit. Dial, stoit.