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stuffer

1 9.2

A person who mounts animal skins so they look like live animals for display

noun
/ˈstʌfər/

Jargon

: taxidermista

So your father was a bird stuffer.

Examples

The stuffer carefully arranged the fox's fur for display in the museum.
As a skilled stuffer, she transformed the deer into a lifelike exhibit for the wildlife display.
After training as a stuffer, he was able to mount various animal skins for educational purposes.

Synonyms

taxidermist

vsstuffer

Specialized

11 8.8

A person who prepares and mounts animal skins for display

focuses more on the single act of mounting skins than the full craft

animal stuffer

vsstuffer

Archaic

9.9

A person who fills and shapes animal skins to make them look like living animals for display

is used especially within the craft rather than as a general job name

Compounds

stocking stuffer

7 2.7

A small gift, often candy or a toy, that people put in a Christmas stocking

sausage stuffer

Specialized

1 5.1

A device that pushes ground meat into casings to make sausages

animal stuffer

Archaic

9.9

A person who fills and shapes animal skins to make them look like living animals for display

Oven Stuffer

4.8

A large chicken for roasting sold in supermarkets under a brand name

Surface Forms

stuffer singular

stuffers plural

Morphology

stuffer = stuff (transparent) = stuff + er

Clear agent noun formation from 'stuff' indicating a person who performs stuffing (here, taxidermy), so the relation is directly inferable.

Etymology

Stuffer comes from the word stuff, meaning 'to fill' or 'material', combined with -er, which names a person who does the action. A taxidermy stuffer fills animal skins with material to make them look like living animals, so the name fits the job.