Fluff

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  • noun. Light down or fuzz, as on a young bird or on a dandelion or milkweed seed.
  • noun. Something having a very light, soft, or frothy consistency or appearance.
  • noun. Something of little substance or consequence, especially.
  • noun. Light or superficial entertainment.
  • noun. Inflated or padded material.
  • noun. The parts of a junked car that are not metal and cannot be recycled.
  • noun. An error, especially in the delivery of lines, as by an actor or announcer.
  • intransitive verb. To make fluffy.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To ruin or mar by a mistake or blunder.
  • intransitive verb. To forget or botch (one's lines).
  • intransitive verb. To cause (a man) to be sufficiently aroused so that he is able to have sexual intercourse, especially in a pornographic film.
  • intransitive verb. To become fluffy.
  • intransitive verb. To make an error, especially to forget or botch one's lines.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To treat with fluff or powder.
  • noun. Light down or nap such as rises from cotton, beds, etc., when agitated; flue.
  • noun. Something downy or fluffy.
  • noun. A puff.
  • noun. A slight explosion of gunpowder.
  • To cause to puff.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Nap or down; flue[2]; soft, downy feathers.
  • noun. Anything light and downy, whose volume consists mostly of air, such as cotton or down.
  • noun. Something light and inconsequential; something not to be taken seriously; -- used commonly of literary or dramatic productions, and sometimes of people.
  • noun. A mistake, especially in the recitation of lines in a drama.
  • transitive verb. To make a mistake in the performance of; -- used mostly of lines in a drama.
  • verb. To make or become fluffy; to move lightly like fluff.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
  • noun. Anything inconsequential or superficial.
  • noun. Lapse, especially a mistake in an actor’s lines.
  • noun. A passive partner in a lesbian relationship.
  • verb. To make something fluffy.
  • verb. To become fluffy.
  • verb. To make a mistake in one’s lines
  • verb. To do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect
  • noun. any light downy material
  • verb. erect or fluff up
  • noun. a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)
  • noun. something of little value or significance
  • verb. make a mess of, destroy or ruin
  • Word Usage
    "He had worked up his patriotism to a pitch of genuine bravery and daring that I had never seen exhibited, when fliff, fluff, fluff, _fluff_, FLUFF, FLUFF -- a whir,"
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    Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bloomer  blooper  blunder  boner  boo-boo  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Slough  bluff  bruff  buff  cuff  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    blur  cobweb  curl  frill  furze  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    BS  Irish bull  aerate  air  all talk  
    verb-form
    fluffed  fluffing  fluffs