unstuft
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]unstuft (not comparable)
- Obsolete spelling of unstuffed.
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
- Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;
But where unbruised youth with unstuft brain
Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.