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English Dictionary: fluff |
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3 results for fluff |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- fluff
- n
- any light downy material
- something of little value or significance
Synonym(s): bagatelle, fluff, frippery, frivolity
- a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)
- v
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and
we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
Synonym(s): botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up
- erect or fluff up; "the bird ruffled its feathers"
Synonym(s): ruffle, fluff
- ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect
Synonym(s): tease, fluff
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Fluff \Fluff\, v. t. & i.
To make or become fluffy; to move lightly like fluff.
--Holmes.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Fluff \Fluff\, n. [Cf. 2d {Flue}. [root]84.]
Nap or down; flue; soft, downy feathers.
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