A stuffed animal is a toy animal stuffed with straw, beans, cotton or other similar materials. Some stuffed animals are very old - home made cloth dolls stuffed with straw go back to at least the 1830s, perhaps much older. Stuffed animals are also known as plush toys and soft toys or cuddly toys. The most well known type of stuffed toy is undoubtedly the teddy bear, and there are even many custom teddy bear variations.
Stuffed animals, in the past, were used for random stuffing of the evacuated skins of hunted animals. The phrase is still sometimes used to refer to examples of taxidermy. However, with modern technology it is now possible to produce them with synthetic materials. For this reason, plush toy or plushie or soft toy may be more appropriate names for modern synthetic stuffed animals.
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