overstuffed

Adjective

overstuffed (comparative more overstuffed, superlative most overstuffed)

1. Filled beyond capacity.
   • […] Mr. [John "Walking"] Stewart used to observe, that the deplorable effect of too much book learning is to deprive man of self-examination, through an over-stuffed memory, which prevents the exercise of the faculties of imagination, judgment, and reflection, and to make conscience depend on the...1822, “a relative” [possibly William Thomas Brande], “The Life of John Stewart, Esq.”, in The Life and Adventures of the Celebrated Walking Stewart: Including His Travels in the East Indies, Turkey...
   • He was so round and fat that his stomach looked like an overstuffed dumpling, with his waistcoat for a crust, and his mouth was drawn down at the corners in a plaintive way, which contrasted oddly with the fun that twinkled in his eyes.1870, [Frank Lee Benedict], “At Tamarack Lake”, in Miss Van Kortland. A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers, Franklin Square, →OCLC, page 90, column 1
2. Of a piece of upholstered furniture, such as a chair or sofa: Covered completely and deeply with upholstery or overstuffing.
   • 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.1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, page 33