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English Dictionary: fluff by the DICT Development Group
3 results for fluff
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fluff
n
  1. any light downy material
  2. something of little value or significance
    Synonym(s): bagatelle, fluff, frippery, frivolity
  3. a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)
v
  1. 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
  2. erect or fluff up; "the bird ruffled its feathers"
    Synonym(s): ruffle, fluff
  3. ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect
    Synonym(s): tease, fluff
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fluff \Fluff\, v. t. & i.
      To make or become fluffy; to move lightly like fluff.
      --Holmes.

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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