packing vs stuffing

packing

noun
  • Material used to fill in the space around something, especially to make a piston etc. watertight or airtight. 

  • The gathering of birds, animals etc. into a pack. 

  • Material used to wrap a product for sale etc.; packaging. 

  • The forming of players into a scrum. 

  • The action of putting things together, especially of putting clothes into a suitcase for a journey. 

  • Special material used to fill containers or vessels for certain chemically related applications. 

  • A fee charged to cover the costs of packaging. 

  • The spatial arrangement of objects, items or constituent parts. 

stuffing

noun
  • The matter used to stuff hollow objects such as pillows and saddles. 

  • The insertion of many copies of a word into a web page in an attempt to increase its search engine ranking. 

  • Severe defeat 

  • A tax loophole whereby a corporation acquires property that will result in a loss of revenue, purely in order to reduce its tax liability. 

  • A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather. 

  • Any of many food items used to stuff another. 

How often have the words packing and stuffing occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )