fluff

UK /flʌf/ US /flʌf/
noun 5verb 5

Definitions

noun

1

Anything 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, for ever crawling over the border.

2

Anything inconsequential or superficial.

That article was basically a bunch of fluff. It didn't say anything substantive.

3

A lapse or mistake, especially a mistake in an actor's lines.

4

A cloth diaper.

5

Marshmallow creme.

That New England-style salami and fluff sandwich sure hit the spot!

verb

1

To make something fluffy.

The cat fluffed its tail.

2

To become fluffy, puff up.

3

To 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.

4

To make a mistake in one's lines.

5

To 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.

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