Stuffy fellow possibly cuddled a lot (5)
I believe the answer is:
teddy
'a lot' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'stuffy fellow possibly cuddled' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'fellow' could be 'eddy' (I've seen this before) and 'eddy' is located in the answer.
A single letter 't' remains which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for teddy that I've seen before include "Cuddly toy" , "Stuffed toy" , "A child's toy bear" , "Type of bear" , "plaything" .)