Fluff

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Light down or fuzz, as on a young bird or on a dandelion or milkweed seed.
  • n. Something having a very light, soft, or frothy consistency or appearance: a fluff of meringue; a fluff of cloud.
  • n. Something of little substance or consequence, especially:
  • n. Light or superficial entertainment: The movie was just another bit of fluff from Hollywood.
  • n. Inflated or padded material: The report was mostly fluff, with little new information.
  • n. The parts of a junked car that are not metal and cannot be recycled.
  • n. Informal An error, especially in the delivery of lines, as by an actor or announcer.
  • v. To make fluffy: fluff a pillow; a squirrel fluffing out its tail.
  • v. Informal To ruin or mar by a mistake or blunder: They fluffed their chance to participate in the playoffs by losing their last three games.
  • v. Informal To forget or botch (one's lines).
  • verb-intransitive. To become fluffy.
  • verb-intransitive. Informal To make an error, especially to forget or botch one's lines.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
  • n. Anything inconsequential or superficial.
  • n. Lapse, especially a mistake in an actor’s lines.
  • n. A passive partner in a lesbian relationship.
  • v. To make something fluffy.
  • v. To become fluffy.
  • v. To make a mistake in one’s lines
  • v. To do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Nap or down; flue[2]; soft, downy feathers.
  • n. Anything light and downy, whose volume consists mostly of air, such as cotton or down.
  • n. Something light and inconsequential; something not to be taken seriously; -- used commonly of literary or dramatic productions, and sometimes of people.
  • n. A mistake, especially in the recitation of lines in a drama.
  • v. To make or become fluffy; to move lightly like fluff.
  • v. To make a mistake in the performance of; -- used mostly of lines in a drama.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Light down or nap such as rises from cotton, beds, etc., when agitated; flue.
  • n. Something downy or fluffy.
  • To treat with fluff or powder.
  • n. A puff.
  • n. A slight explosion of gunpowder.
  • To cause to puff.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect
  • n. any light downy material
  • v. erect or fluff up
  • n. a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)
  • n. something of little value or significance
  • v. make a mess of, destroy or ruin
  • Verb Form
    fluffed    fluffing    fluffs   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    disentangle    comb    comb out    stuff    material    loosen    boo-boo    fuckup    bloomer    foul-up   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    fluff girl    fluff up    fluffer   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    flue[2]    down    fuzzy    flossy    flue    lint    fuzz    puff    all talk    BS   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Slough    bluff    bruff    buff    cuff    duff    enough    gruff    guff    hough   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    fuzz    lint    horsehair    gauze    whisker    ruff    moss    seaweed    ringlet    tuft