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fluff

/fləf/
/fləf/
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Other forms: fluffed; fluffs; fluffing

Fluff is a soft, light puffy or feathery material. Your pet angora rabbit is covered in fluff, and when you blow the down off a dandelion, you can call that fluff too.

A department store window designer might use white cotton fluff as snow in his holiday display, and a bored dog might pull the fluff out of every pillow in the house while you're at work. The word fluff is also a verb meaning "to shake or ruffle until something looks fuller." It's also a great way to describe something meaningless or frivolous: "I had high hopes for the newspaper article, but it was just fluff."

Definitions of fluff
  1. noun
    any light downy material
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    type of:
    material, stuff
    the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
  2. noun
    something of little value or significance
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    type of:
    small beer, trifle, trivia, triviality
    something of small importance
  3. verb
    erect or fluff up
    synonyms: ruffle
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    type of:
    loosen
    make less dense
  4. verb
    ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect
    synonyms: tease
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    type of:
    comb, comb out, disentangle
    smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
  5. verb
    make a mess of, destroy or ruin
  6. noun
    a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)
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    type of:
    bloomer, blooper, blunder, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, pratfall
    an embarrassing mistake
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