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Fluff   /fləf/   Listen
Fluff

noun
1.
Any light downy material.
2.
Something of little value or significance.  Synonyms: bagatelle, frippery, frivolity.
3.
A blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines).
verb
1.
Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.  Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil.  "The pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
2.
Erect or fluff up.  Synonym: ruffle.
3.
Ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect.  Synonym: tease.



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"Fluff" Quotes from Famous Books



... paper known as "German lined"—a highly absorbent, closely woven paper, having an even surface and no loose "fluff" to adhere to the specimens—is the most useful ...
— The Elements of Bacteriological Technique • John William Henry Eyre
... scissors agleam in her hand, trotted in alacriously. She sat Charles-Norton on the edge of the tub and bent over him her happy, humming head. Zip-zip-zip, went the scissors, zip-zip—and a soft white fluff that looked like the stuffing of a pillow (an A-one pillow; not the kind upon which Charles-Norton and Dolly laid their modest heads) eddied slowly to Charles-Norton's feet while he shivered slightly to the coldness of the steel. ...
— The Trimming of Goosie • James Hopper
... skin rattled a little. A fluff of yellow, a spark of blue, and "Pik-k?" chirped Lovin Child from under the edge, and ducked back again ...
— Cabin Fever • B. M. Bower
... times they would dance and hop with great delight; and the little hens, in a circle round them, watched their hops and steps with absorbed interest. Immensely pleased with himself, the young dancer would fluff out his feathers, so as to look as big as possible, and after strutting about, would suddenly shoot out a leg and a wing, first on one side and then on the other, then spring high into the air, and do a sort of step dance when his feet touched the earth again. Endless were ...
— Dot and the Kangaroo • Ethel C. Pedley
... "Nobody could help liking Fluff," he replied. "She's really good company. I wish I could talk her talk. She has a fine line of conversation if ...
— Desert Conquest - or, Precious Waters • A. M. Chisholm


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