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fluff

Pronunciation: /flʌf/

The English word “fluff” has 19 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
  2. Anything inconsequential or superficial.
  3. A lapse or mistake, especially a mistake in an actor's lines.
  4. A cloth diaper.
  5. Marshmallow creme.
  6. A passive partner in a lesbian relationship.
  7. A fart.
  8. Fan fiction, or part of a fan fiction, which is sweet and feel-good in tone, usually involving romance.
  9. 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.
  10. Short change deliberately given by a railway clerk, to keep back money for himself.

verb

  1. To make something fluffy.
  2. To become fluffy, puff up.
  3. To move lightly like fluff.
  4. To make a mistake in one's lines.
  5. To do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc.
  6. To break wind, to fart.
  7. To arouse (a male pornographic actor) before filming.
  8. To bring to a state of excitement.
  9. To deliberately shortchange (a railway customer) and keep the money for oneself.

Etymology

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…

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