Fluff - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |flʌf|  American pronunciation of the word fluff
Brit.  |flʌf|  British pronunciation of the word fluff

noun

- any light downy material
- something of little value or significance (syn: bagatelle, frippery, frivolity)
- a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)

verb

- make a mess of, destroy or ruin (syn: ball up, blow, bodge, bollocks, botch, bumble, bungle, flub, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muff, screw up, spoil)
- erect or fluff up (syn: ruffle)
- ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect (syn: tease)

Extra examples

Her sweater was covered with fluff.

The movie was pure fluff.

Her latest article has the usual fluff about movie stars and gossip.

The wind fluffed his hair.

The golfer fluffed another shot.

The actor kept fluffing the same line.

He brushed the fluff off his coat.

The little chick was covered in yellow fluff.

They mostly just broadcast fluff.

When the weather is cold, birds fluff out their feathers so as to keep warm.

I fluffed my driving test three times.

He was picking bits of fluff off his trousers.

The chicks were just balls of yellow fluff.

He fluffed his shot and missed the goal.

She fluffed her lines in the first scene.

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: fluff
he/she/it: fluffs
present participle: fluffing
past tense: fluffed
past participle: fluffed
noun
singular: fluff
plural: fluffs
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