/flʌf/, /flɐf/, /flʊf/
- countable, uncountableAnything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
“[W]hen I walk in my fields I can see, down Berwick way, the little fluffs of white smoke which tell me of this strange new hundred-legged beast, with coals for food and a thousand men in its belly, fo”
- countable, uncountableAnything inconsequential or superficial.
“That article was basically a bunch of fluff. It didn't say anything substantive.”
- countable, informal, uncountableA lapse or mistake, especially a mistake in an actor's lines.
- countable, informal, slang, uncountableA cloth diaper.
- New-England, countable, uncountableMarshmallow creme.
“That New England-style salami and fluff sandwich sure hit the spot!”
- countable, uncountableA passive partner in a lesbian relationship.
- Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, countable, euphemisticA fart.
- countable, slang, uncountableFan fiction, or part of a fan fiction, which is sweet and feel-good in tone, usually involving romance.
“And when something triggers, I can close the window and go read fluff for hours until I calm down.”
“Fans prefer fluff to other types of fic. But angst (dramatic stories where characters have a wide range of emotions, including...angsty ones) comes in close second.”
“Ah, fluff. My happy place. These fics are dedicated to feel-good feelings, which are the very best type of feelings.”
- UK, countable, uncountableA form of roleplaying which is inconsequential and not related to the plot; often used in the context of (but not limited to) filling time.
- UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountableShort change deliberately given by a railway clerk, to keep back money for himself.
“"What?" cried the counter-man, indignantly. "Been a railwayman all these years, and don't know what fluff is? Why, 'pon me word, you deserve to get the sack!"”
- transitiveTo make something fluffy.
“The cat fluffed its tail.”
- intransitiveTo become fluffy, puff up.
- intransitiveTo move lightly like fluff.
“She gave the music-stool a twirl or two and fluffed down on to it like a whirl of soap-suds in a hand-basin.”
- informal, intransitive, transitiveTo make a mistake in one's lines.
- informal, transitiveTo do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc.
“Either side of Rooney's fluffed chance, it was a tale of Ukrainian domination as they attacked England down both flanks and showed the greater fluidity of the teams.”
- Australia, euphemistic, intransitiveTo break wind, to fart.
- slang, transitiveTo arouse (a male pornographic actor) before filming.
“To get Lance Bronson hard, Chi Chi, in desperation, called Sharon Kane to come and fluff him on the set. People were always asking me how they could get a job as a fluffer.”
- broadly, slang, transitiveTo bring to a state of excitement.
“The warmup guy — as I now know is common for live audiences in taped television performances — kept fluffing the crowd like they were preschoolers.
“Now what are you going to do when we introduce the ”
- UK, obsolete, slangTo deliberately shortchange (a railway customer) and keep the money for oneself.
“A genial counter-man told Mr. Manners that, if he played artful, he might even now obtain the position of outside porter; you got no pay there, but you could gain a moderate competency by fluffing.”
Formsfluffs(plural) · fluffs(present, singular, third-person) · fluffing(participle, present) · fluffed(participle, past) · fluffed(past)