fluff.
Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
Meaning & usage
Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
Anything inconsequential or superficial.
That article was basically a bunch of fluff. It didn't say anything substantive.
A lapse or mistake, especially a mistake in an actor's lines.
A cloth diaper.
Marshmallow creme.
A passive partner in a lesbian relationship.
A fart.
Fan fiction, or part of a fan fiction, which is sweet and feel-good in tone, usually involving romance.
A form of roleplaying which is inconsequential and not related to the plot; often used in the context of (but not limited to) filling time.
Short change deliberately given by a railway clerk, to keep back money for himself.
Where this word comes from
From earlier floow (“woolly substance, down, nap, lint”), also spelt flough, flue, and flew, from West Flemish vluwe, of uncertain ultimate origin: * Compare Old English flōh (“that which is flown off, fragment, piece”); see flaw * Possibly representing a blend of flue + puff; compare Middle Dutch vloe, or perhaps onomatopoeic; compare dialectal English floose, flooze, fleeze (“particles of wool or cotton; fluff; loose threads or fibres”), Danish fnug (“down, fluff”), Swedish fnugg (“speck, flake”). * Alternatively, West Flemish vluwe may derive from French velu (“hairy, furry”), from Latin villūtus (“having shaggy hair”), from villus (“shaggy hair, tuft of hair”). For words of similar sound and meaning in other languages, compare Japanese フワフワ (fuwafuwa, “lightly, softly”), Hungarian puha (“soft, fluffy”), Polish puchaty (“soft, fluffy”), Romanian puf (“down, peachfuzz, soft hair of some animals, powderpuff”).
To make something fluffy.
The cat fluffed its tail.
To become fluffy, puff up.
To move lightly like fluff.
To make a mistake in one's lines.
To do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc.
To break wind, to fart.
To arouse (a male pornographic actor) before filming.
To bring to a state of excitement.
To deliberately shortchange (a railway customer) and keep the money for oneself.
Where this word comes from
From earlier floow (“woolly substance, down, nap, lint”), also spelt flough, flue, and flew, from West Flemish vluwe, of uncertain ultimate origin: * Compare Old English flōh (“that which is flown off, fragment, piece”); see flaw * Possibly representing a blend of flue + puff; compare Middle Dutch vloe, or perhaps onomatopoeic; compare dialectal English floose, flooze, fleeze (“particles of wool or cotton; fluff; loose threads or fibres”), Danish fnug (“down, fluff”), Swedish fnugg (“speck, flake”). * Alternatively, West Flemish vluwe may derive from French velu (“hairy, furry”), from Latin villūtus (“having shaggy hair”), from villus (“shaggy hair, tuft of hair”). For words of similar sound and meaning in other languages, compare Japanese フワフワ (fuwafuwa, “lightly, softly”), Hungarian puha (“soft, fluffy”), Polish puchaty (“soft, fluffy”), Romanian puf (“down, peachfuzz, soft hair of some animals, powderpuff”).
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