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Noun, Verb (usu participle)

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun fluff has 3 senses

Verb fluff has 3 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

fluffn. [Cf. 2d Flue.
  •  Nap or down; flue[2]; soft, downy feathers.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Anything light and downy, whose volume consists mostly of air, such as cotton or down.  [PJC]
  •  Something light and inconsequential; something not to be taken seriously; -- used commonly of literary or dramatic productions, and sometimes of people.  [PJC]
  •  A mistake, especially in the recitation of lines in a drama.  [PJC]
fluffv. t. & i. 
     To make or become fluffy; to move lightly like fluff.  Holmes.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
fluffv. t. 
     To make a mistake in the performance of; -- used mostly of lines in a drama; as, he fluffed the last line of the act.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

fluff, n. & v.
--n.
1 soft, light, feathery material coming off blankets etc.
2 soft fur or feathers.
3 sl. a a mistake in delivering theatrical lines, in playing music, etc. b a mistake in playing a game.
--v.
1 tr. & intr. (often foll. by up) shake into or become a soft mass.
2 tr. & intr. colloq. make a mistake in (a theatrical part, a game, playing music, a speech, etc.); blunder (fluffed his opening line).
3 tr. make into fluff.
4 tr. put a soft surface on (the flesh side of leather).

Idiom
bit of fluff sl. offens. a woman regarded as an object of sexual desire.
Etymology
prob. dial. alt. of flue fluff

THESAURUS

fluff

Irish bull, aerate, air, anacoluthon, bad job, ball up, bevue, bloomer, blooper, blow, blubber, blunder, bobble, boggle, bollix, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, boot, botch, breeze, bubble, bull, bungle, butter, catachresis, chaff, chip, clay, clumsy performance, cobweb, cock up, cork, cushion, daintiness, delicacy, dough, down, downiness, drop a brick, drop the ball, duff, dust, ease, eiderdown, error, ether, etourderie, fairy, feather, feather bed, feathers, filminess, fine-grainedness, fineness, fleece, floss, flub, flue, fluffiness, foam, folk etymology, foozle, foul up, froth, fuck up, fumble, fur, fuzz, fuzziness, gaucherie, gentle, girl friend, goof, goof up, gossamer, gossameriness, grammatical error, hash, howler, hypercorrection, hyperform, kapok, knead, lapse, laxate, limber, limber up, lint, loosen, louse up, malaprop, malapropism, marrowsky, mash, massage, mellow, mess, mess up, milden, miscue, mispronunciation, missaying, mistake, mistress, misusage, mollify, mote, muck up, muddle, muff, off day, peach fuzz, pile, pillow, plump, plush, pubescence, pudding, puff, puff up, pull a boner, pulp, putty, refinement, relax, rubber, ruin, sad work, satin, satininess, screw up, shake up, silk, silkiness, slip, smash, smoothness, snafu, soften, soften up, softness, solecism, spoil, sponge, spoonerism, spume, squash, straw, stumble, subdue, supple, swansdown, tenderize, thistledown, tone down, trip, tune down, velvet, velvetiness, wax, wool, zephyr

ROGET THESAURUS

fluff

Roughness

N roughness, tooth, grain, texture, ripple, asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity, arborescence, pilosity, brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet, fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi, lovelock, beaucatcher, curl paper, goatee, papillote, scalp lock, plumage, plumosity, plume, panache, crest, feather, tuft, fringe, toupee, wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down, byssus, moss, bur, fluff, knot (convolution), rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted, rugged, rugose, rugous, knurly, asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn, craggy, cragged, crankling, scraggy, prickly, arborescent, leafy, well-wooded, feathery, plumose, plumigerous, laciniate, laciniform, laciniose, pappose, pileous, pilose, trichogenous, trichoid, tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute, crinose, crinite, bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged, fringed, befringed, setous, setose, setaceous, like quills upon the fretful porcupine, rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear, downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly, lanate, lanated, lanuginous, lanuginose, tomentose, fluffy, against the grain, cabello luengo y corto el seso.

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