different between overstaffed vs overstuffed

English

Verb

overstaffed

1. simple past tense and past participle of overstaff

English

Etymology

over- +? stuffed.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???v?st?ft/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o?v?st?ft/
• Hyphenation: over?stuffed

Adjective

overstuffed (comparative more overstuffed, superlative most overstuffed)

1. Filled beyond capacity.
2. Of a piece of upholstered furniture, such as a chair or sofa: Covered completely and deeply with upholstery or overstuffing.
   • 1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ?ISBN; Picador edition, New York, N.Y.: Picador, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January 2004, ?ISBN, page 33:

     We furnished our first nest with castoffs. Friends alerted us to an overstuffed chair that someone on the far side of the ballpark was, outrageously, throwing out. No three dishes matched. We owned one big-ticket item: a clock radio. Every morning, we woke to the broadcast calls of birds.

Verb

overstuffed

1. simple past tense and past participle of overstuff.

References

• overstuffed at OneLook Dictionary Search