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Definition of fluff in English: fluffnoun flʌffləf 1mass noun Soft fibres from fabrics such as wool or cotton which accumulate in small light clumps. he brushed his sleeve to remove the fluff Example sentencesExamples - Yes, of course it's cotton wool fluff, but it's excellent cotton wool fluff nonetheless.
- Cocooned in layers of cotton fluff, I was lead to Mic's living room couch, still leaning into him but for more self-indulgent reasons than balance.
- The wind occasionally blew cotton fluff into the set, which made you feel really in tune to the emotional side of the play.
- There's a lot of pink fluff and fur littered about the place, hologramatic hearts on the walls.
- The dress was trimmed on the cuffs and collar with soft, feathery, red fluff.
- Try it, and if you succeed then blow firmly into the mouse to remove any fluff, hairs, and other bits.
- This is a bit of research into belly buttons and their fluff (or lint, as some may call it).
- I could have fashioned little lint men from the balls of fluff in my belly button.
- Seconds later, an empty cup was on the floor and light brown liquid was seeping into the white fluff on the ground.
- Don't polish the silver too brightly or remove the fluff too diligently from your freshly starched soft furnishings.
- These products may also contain rayon and wood fluff, which is chemically derived from tree pulp and then bleached.
- It was like dandelion fluff, or stretched-out cotton and, much like Cecily herself, it always seemed ready to float away.
- The law states that if you drop said toast on the floor, it will always fall butter side down, thus attracting a large covering of dust, colourful fluff, and cat hairs.
- But he's a clever Baz, and before too long he understood why we were putting the cover around the cotton fluff.
- The double cyclones still allowed other common domestic debris such as carpet fluff, thread, paper shreds, dog hairs and suchlike to pass out of the ‘clean’ air exit of the appliance.
- The particles are mixed with the air-laid fluff fibres to form a pad having a density of about 0.1 g/cm and a basis weight of about 1400 g/m.
- A piece of cottonwood fluff brought low by the rain settles damply onto the hood of the truck.
- It reminded her of cotton, loads of little balls of cotton and fluff, fragile, whisked into the air by a fan that had been left on overnight.
- I had to stand on a chair to put up the curtains and they were new and dropped fluff on the black fabric of the chair seat.
Synonyms fuzz, lint, dust North American dustballs, dust bunnies Scottish ooze - 1.1 Any soft downy substance, especially the fur or feathers of a young mammal or bird.
Example sentencesExamples - I close my eyes and remember how a chocolate collapses in the cavey roof of my mouth as my tongue nudges it and air escapes and caramel or champagne liquid or pink fluff seeps out.
- The chicks, tiny black bundles of fluff no bigger than golf balls, are very quickly tumbled into the water, where they swim around behind their parents at an incredible speed for their size, like little torpedoes.
- As Ever headed for the Oldsmobile, she jumped in a pile of snow and sent some white fluff powdering the air then gliding back into its pile.
- We haven't had much new snow, so the trails were not that wonderful deep fluff, but rather a rut akin to those left on the Oregon Trail.
- Fly fishing is more normally associated with the pursuit of salmon and trout but a number of species will show an interest in a large collection of fluff and feathers aimed at imitating a prey fish.
- They all turned to look at Ursula Harris, whose face was crimson, her chestnut hair in disarray like a baby bird's fluff, whose laugh was audible even here, a high garrulous tinkle.
- Eventually their fluff changed to feathers and they were large enough to move into the coop.
- There is cuddly fur and downy fluff to stroke, rubber-like blubber and armour-like scales to feel - mammals certainly come in all manner of wonderful varieties.
- Kel and Mithendil stood silently for a moment, watching the bobbing fluff of red hair disappear behind a building.
- I dropped back down on my bed and patted down some pokey ends of loose fluff and feather down idly, and heard the door open.
- At these times the parents take care of their mobile balls of fluff in the most zealous way.
- My guess was that he was no older than four or five years old with white blond hair that looked like duck fluff stuck on his head.
- All that I could see was that sandy blonde downy fluff, the baby fat, and those crystal blue eyes that would probably change.
- Gem Casper mentally cursed the salty sea air for reducing her hair to lifeless fluff.
- Some had sumptuous, lush growths while others, despite great care and attention, managed nothing more than a light fluff.
Synonyms down, soft/fine hair, soft fur, soft feathers, downiness, fuzz, floss, nap, pile
2Entertainment or writing perceived as trivial or superficial. the film is a piece of typical Hollywood fluff Example sentencesExamples - They might call it chick-lit, but the Scribbler reckons that some talons are emerging from underneath that cutesy downy fluff.
- For all you know, someone might all want surround sound with remote, flat screen plasma TV and all the fluff!
- It's enjoyable fluff, a world removed from Carlyle's exploration of the darker recesses of the mind.
- Well, hang on to the remote because there are a couple of good programmes on and they're not the usual light fluff either.
- More likely is that the fluff about the creative industries is useful for its propaganda value.
- It's mostly brown-nosing fluff with little substance.
- This is light fluff masquerading as heavy drama.
- Creativity is much needed to promote not fluff, but substance.
- The debate on Tuesday was really a debate between substance and fluff.
- Simon: ‘I've heard all this before at weddings.… That was just a bit of light fluff.’
- But I can see why Evy wrote it; perhaps s/he'd like to see less fluff and more substance in this forum.
- It's fluff, but interesting fluff - a personalization of the computer on which you spend so much of your life.
- Think of Jacques-Louis David persuading his audience to remove the Rococo fluff from their eyes.
- Kyle had done a good job of convincing me that he was only interested in that which was real - the cold light of reality, not the fluff of romance novels.
- If you can see past the fluff and the pastels, the story itself is a positive one of feminist revolt and the status of women during the La Belle Epoque era in Paris during the early 1900s.
- I'd wager that if most of America had known the first finalist wouldn't even be selected until the second half, very few would have tuned in for the fluff.
- The thirty-minute ‘making of’ featurette is of far higher quality than typical superficial PR fluff.
- And when it comes to yearly televised fluff (that is, if we have to choose one), there are Oscar people and there are Super Bowl people.
- We viewers are absorbed in all the fluff and drama of Hollywood just as much as Americans.
- A pleasant piece of fluff, this light comedy, while laugh inducing, is utterly forgettable.
3informal A mistake made in speaking or playing music, or by an actor in delivering their lines. Example sentencesExamples - Not assisting the actors is the unwieldy dialogue, which caused an unusual amount of line fluffs on opening night.
- After a couple of fluffs, Jeffers did what he's paid for.
- Slow scene changes, line fluffs and anachronistic props appear occasionally.
- Bernstein's New York Philharmonic play for him better than they usually played for Bernstein, with glorious tone and no discernible fluffs.
Synonyms mistake, error, gaffe, blunder, fault, slip, slip of the tongue, solecism, indiscretion, oversight, inaccuracy, botch French faux pas Latin lapsus linguae, lapsus calami informal slip-up, clanger, boner, boo-boo, howler, fail British informal boob North American informal goof, blooper, bloop British informal, dated bloomer, floater
verb flʌffləf [with object]1Make (something) appear fuller and softer by shaking or brushing it. Example sentencesExamples - She stomped into the middle of the kitchen, gave herself the most enormous shake to fluff her fur out to maximum effect, and began the big clean-up.
- He stared at me and cocked his head, fluffing his neck feathers.
- He brushed a hand across the top of his head and fluffed up some of the fur that had been pressed down during his sleep.
- It had not yet failed, and indeed Mary put down the book, fluffed her own pillows, and laid back.
- She turned and fluffed her hair, as she glanced at the line of orphaned children.
- They wriggle their claws in the dirt, fluff out their feathers, and preen themselves.
- She then directed her little servants to fluff the pillows, and proceeded to brush my hair and pinch my cheeks for color.
- I shook out the sheep skin to fluff it, and he stretched out on his back on the table, his hand on the hilt of his seax.
- Remove from the microwave and fluff with a fork (this makes perfect rice every time and no pots to clean).
- They even have a pillow nurse who fluffs your pillow.
- After fluffing her hair, Tyra nodded at her reflection and blew a kiss at the mirror.
- Remove lid and fluff with a fork to separate grains.
- Remove from heat, fluff with a fork, and season with salt and pepper.
- The whole head is fluffed up and gently back-combed, so that it looks scruffy and unkempt.
- Then he silently fluffed the pillows and placed them, along with the extra blanket, under the sheets, and molded the lumps into a human form.
- ‘Damn it's hot,’ said the brunette, shaking her hair in the air while fluffing it out.
- Now the two sat in the corner, messing with each other's hair, continuously fluffing it up and then smoothing it down.
2informal Fail to perform or accomplish (something) successfully or well. the extra fluffed his only line Example sentencesExamples - Gary Power also directed this production and the fact that there wasn't a fluffed line on opening night is a credit to Gary's skills as a director and the commitment of the cast.
- Lots of people had previous experience or had been to drama school so when I fluffed a line, I thought I'd blown it.
- Finally the star came to the tee, eyed up the ball and completely fluffed the shot.
- West Leeds got themselves in a rare position to attack the Dalesmen's lines but the belief had gone and they fluffed it.
- Despite fluffed lines and frankly awful vocal extemporising this really is guitar-based music at its most thrilling.
- But he fluffed his shot from close range, the ball then flying through the six-yard box where Speed and Stelios were unable to find a gaping net.
- As if to underline the point, he has narrator Sean Penn, in a deliciously off-handed moment, deliberately fluff one of his lines.
- For long periods in the first half, Leinster had orientation difficulty - kicking the ball out on the full three times, fluffing the odd lineout and knocking the ball on in promising positions.
- We got into positions where we made a loose pass or fluffed it and they then shot the ball wide and took full advantage.
- Staring intently at the screen he grins and grimaces, laughing at some gurning by Ant, screwing up his face when Dec fluffs a line.
- But Ducros fluffed his chance and allowed Sollitt to scamper across his line to make the save and then block again from a Shaw header.
- His performance yesterday - including fluffing a great chance early in the second half - displayed little to suggest that this will change.
- You could tell it was an early performance - Jim Broadbent fluffed a few lines and there was a little clunkiness in some of the performances - but overall it was a lot of fun.
- Mathers also fluffed a glorious opportunity when he failed to take Marcus Bai's pass with the home line breached.
- The home side continued to look the more urgent outfit and Hore shook his head in frustration as he fluffed a snap drop-goal attempt.
- The matinee was very second dayish: flat, uninspired, with fluffed lines and little energy.
- After 29 years without an FA Cup semi-final they fluffed their big chance and missed out on a £1million pay-day in the process.
- ‘He was clean through from the halfway line but he fluffed it,’ Beardsley recalled.
- They might fluff their lines a lot, the costumes might look as if they've seen better days, and the plot might be as loose as the screws in their heads, but this is family entertainment at its best.
- Producers have filled DVDs of hit shows such as Doctor Who and Red Dwarf with extra features such as footage of fluffed lines and errors, and even extra scenes which never made it on air.
Synonyms bungle, deliver badly, muddle up, make a mess of forget informal mess up, foul up, screw up, cock up bungle, fumble, miss informal mess up, make a mess of, make a hash of, hash, muff, foozle, butcher, make a botch of, foul up, bitch up, screw up, blow, louse up British informal make a muck of, make a pig's ear of, cock up, make a Horlicks of North American informal flub, goof up, bobble vulgar slang fuck up, bugger up, balls up, bollix up
Origin Late 18th century: probably a dialect alteration of 16th-century flue 'down, nap, fluff', apparently from Flemish vluwe. Rhymes bluff, buff, chough, chuff, cuff, duff, enough, gruff, guff, huff, luff, puff, rough, ruff, scruff, scuff, slough, snuff, stuff, Tough, tuff Definition of fluff in US English: fluffnounfləffləf 1Soft fibers from fabrics such as wool or cotton which accumulate in small light clumps. he brushed his sleeve to remove the fluff Example sentencesExamples - Don't polish the silver too brightly or remove the fluff too diligently from your freshly starched soft furnishings.
- There's a lot of pink fluff and fur littered about the place, hologramatic hearts on the walls.
- I could have fashioned little lint men from the balls of fluff in my belly button.
- It reminded her of cotton, loads of little balls of cotton and fluff, fragile, whisked into the air by a fan that had been left on overnight.
- It was like dandelion fluff, or stretched-out cotton and, much like Cecily herself, it always seemed ready to float away.
- The dress was trimmed on the cuffs and collar with soft, feathery, red fluff.
- A piece of cottonwood fluff brought low by the rain settles damply onto the hood of the truck.
- I had to stand on a chair to put up the curtains and they were new and dropped fluff on the black fabric of the chair seat.
- The law states that if you drop said toast on the floor, it will always fall butter side down, thus attracting a large covering of dust, colourful fluff, and cat hairs.
- The particles are mixed with the air-laid fluff fibres to form a pad having a density of about 0.1 g/cm and a basis weight of about 1400 g/m.
- These products may also contain rayon and wood fluff, which is chemically derived from tree pulp and then bleached.
- But he's a clever Baz, and before too long he understood why we were putting the cover around the cotton fluff.
- Yes, of course it's cotton wool fluff, but it's excellent cotton wool fluff nonetheless.
- Try it, and if you succeed then blow firmly into the mouse to remove any fluff, hairs, and other bits.
- Cocooned in layers of cotton fluff, I was lead to Mic's living room couch, still leaning into him but for more self-indulgent reasons than balance.
- Seconds later, an empty cup was on the floor and light brown liquid was seeping into the white fluff on the ground.
- This is a bit of research into belly buttons and their fluff (or lint, as some may call it).
- The double cyclones still allowed other common domestic debris such as carpet fluff, thread, paper shreds, dog hairs and suchlike to pass out of the ‘clean’ air exit of the appliance.
- The wind occasionally blew cotton fluff into the set, which made you feel really in tune to the emotional side of the play.
- 1.1 Any soft downy substance, especially the fur or feathers of a young mammal or bird.
Example sentencesExamples - At these times the parents take care of their mobile balls of fluff in the most zealous way.
- I dropped back down on my bed and patted down some pokey ends of loose fluff and feather down idly, and heard the door open.
- The chicks, tiny black bundles of fluff no bigger than golf balls, are very quickly tumbled into the water, where they swim around behind their parents at an incredible speed for their size, like little torpedoes.
- Gem Casper mentally cursed the salty sea air for reducing her hair to lifeless fluff.
- Some had sumptuous, lush growths while others, despite great care and attention, managed nothing more than a light fluff.
- Fly fishing is more normally associated with the pursuit of salmon and trout but a number of species will show an interest in a large collection of fluff and feathers aimed at imitating a prey fish.
- We haven't had much new snow, so the trails were not that wonderful deep fluff, but rather a rut akin to those left on the Oregon Trail.
- My guess was that he was no older than four or five years old with white blond hair that looked like duck fluff stuck on his head.
- All that I could see was that sandy blonde downy fluff, the baby fat, and those crystal blue eyes that would probably change.
- I close my eyes and remember how a chocolate collapses in the cavey roof of my mouth as my tongue nudges it and air escapes and caramel or champagne liquid or pink fluff seeps out.
- Kel and Mithendil stood silently for a moment, watching the bobbing fluff of red hair disappear behind a building.
- Eventually their fluff changed to feathers and they were large enough to move into the coop.
- They all turned to look at Ursula Harris, whose face was crimson, her chestnut hair in disarray like a baby bird's fluff, whose laugh was audible even here, a high garrulous tinkle.
- As Ever headed for the Oldsmobile, she jumped in a pile of snow and sent some white fluff powdering the air then gliding back into its pile.
- There is cuddly fur and downy fluff to stroke, rubber-like blubber and armour-like scales to feel - mammals certainly come in all manner of wonderful varieties.
Synonyms down, fine hair, soft hair, soft fur, soft feathers, downiness, fuzz, floss, nap, pile
2Entertainment or writing perceived as trivial or superficial. the movie is a piece of typical Hollywood fluff Example sentencesExamples - Kyle had done a good job of convincing me that he was only interested in that which was real - the cold light of reality, not the fluff of romance novels.
- It's mostly brown-nosing fluff with little substance.
- The thirty-minute ‘making of’ featurette is of far higher quality than typical superficial PR fluff.
- We viewers are absorbed in all the fluff and drama of Hollywood just as much as Americans.
- The debate on Tuesday was really a debate between substance and fluff.
- More likely is that the fluff about the creative industries is useful for its propaganda value.
- And when it comes to yearly televised fluff (that is, if we have to choose one), there are Oscar people and there are Super Bowl people.
- It's enjoyable fluff, a world removed from Carlyle's exploration of the darker recesses of the mind.
- Think of Jacques-Louis David persuading his audience to remove the Rococo fluff from their eyes.
- Creativity is much needed to promote not fluff, but substance.
- It's fluff, but interesting fluff - a personalization of the computer on which you spend so much of your life.
- If you can see past the fluff and the pastels, the story itself is a positive one of feminist revolt and the status of women during the La Belle Epoque era in Paris during the early 1900s.
- For all you know, someone might all want surround sound with remote, flat screen plasma TV and all the fluff!
- Well, hang on to the remote because there are a couple of good programmes on and they're not the usual light fluff either.
- I'd wager that if most of America had known the first finalist wouldn't even be selected until the second half, very few would have tuned in for the fluff.
- This is light fluff masquerading as heavy drama.
- A pleasant piece of fluff, this light comedy, while laugh inducing, is utterly forgettable.
- But I can see why Evy wrote it; perhaps s/he'd like to see less fluff and more substance in this forum.
- Simon: ‘I've heard all this before at weddings.… That was just a bit of light fluff.’
- They might call it chick-lit, but the Scribbler reckons that some talons are emerging from underneath that cutesy downy fluff.
3informal A mistake made in speaking or playing music, or by an actor in delivering lines. Example sentencesExamples - Slow scene changes, line fluffs and anachronistic props appear occasionally.
- Not assisting the actors is the unwieldy dialogue, which caused an unusual amount of line fluffs on opening night.
- Bernstein's New York Philharmonic play for him better than they usually played for Bernstein, with glorious tone and no discernible fluffs.
- After a couple of fluffs, Jeffers did what he's paid for.
Synonyms mistake, error, gaffe, blunder, fault, slip, slip of the tongue, solecism, indiscretion, oversight, inaccuracy, botch
verbfləffləf [with object]1Make (something) appear fuller and softer by shaking or brushing it. Example sentencesExamples - They even have a pillow nurse who fluffs your pillow.
- He stared at me and cocked his head, fluffing his neck feathers.
- She then directed her little servants to fluff the pillows, and proceeded to brush my hair and pinch my cheeks for color.
- ‘Damn it's hot,’ said the brunette, shaking her hair in the air while fluffing it out.
- Now the two sat in the corner, messing with each other's hair, continuously fluffing it up and then smoothing it down.
- The whole head is fluffed up and gently back-combed, so that it looks scruffy and unkempt.
- Remove from heat, fluff with a fork, and season with salt and pepper.
- It had not yet failed, and indeed Mary put down the book, fluffed her own pillows, and laid back.
- They wriggle their claws in the dirt, fluff out their feathers, and preen themselves.
- Remove from the microwave and fluff with a fork (this makes perfect rice every time and no pots to clean).
- Then he silently fluffed the pillows and placed them, along with the extra blanket, under the sheets, and molded the lumps into a human form.
- She turned and fluffed her hair, as she glanced at the line of orphaned children.
- After fluffing her hair, Tyra nodded at her reflection and blew a kiss at the mirror.
- I shook out the sheep skin to fluff it, and he stretched out on his back on the table, his hand on the hilt of his seax.
- She stomped into the middle of the kitchen, gave herself the most enormous shake to fluff her fur out to maximum effect, and began the big clean-up.
- Remove lid and fluff with a fork to separate grains.
- He brushed a hand across the top of his head and fluffed up some of the fur that had been pressed down during his sleep.
2informal Fail to perform or accomplish (something) successfully or well (used especially in a sporting or acting context) the extra fluffed his only line Example sentencesExamples - ‘He was clean through from the halfway line but he fluffed it,’ Beardsley recalled.
- Finally the star came to the tee, eyed up the ball and completely fluffed the shot.
- As if to underline the point, he has narrator Sean Penn, in a deliciously off-handed moment, deliberately fluff one of his lines.
- But Ducros fluffed his chance and allowed Sollitt to scamper across his line to make the save and then block again from a Shaw header.
- Staring intently at the screen he grins and grimaces, laughing at some gurning by Ant, screwing up his face when Dec fluffs a line.
- We got into positions where we made a loose pass or fluffed it and they then shot the ball wide and took full advantage.
- The matinee was very second dayish: flat, uninspired, with fluffed lines and little energy.
- Despite fluffed lines and frankly awful vocal extemporising this really is guitar-based music at its most thrilling.
- But he fluffed his shot from close range, the ball then flying through the six-yard box where Speed and Stelios were unable to find a gaping net.
- The home side continued to look the more urgent outfit and Hore shook his head in frustration as he fluffed a snap drop-goal attempt.
- You could tell it was an early performance - Jim Broadbent fluffed a few lines and there was a little clunkiness in some of the performances - but overall it was a lot of fun.
- After 29 years without an FA Cup semi-final they fluffed their big chance and missed out on a £1million pay-day in the process.
- For long periods in the first half, Leinster had orientation difficulty - kicking the ball out on the full three times, fluffing the odd lineout and knocking the ball on in promising positions.
- They might fluff their lines a lot, the costumes might look as if they've seen better days, and the plot might be as loose as the screws in their heads, but this is family entertainment at its best.
- West Leeds got themselves in a rare position to attack the Dalesmen's lines but the belief had gone and they fluffed it.
- Lots of people had previous experience or had been to drama school so when I fluffed a line, I thought I'd blown it.
- Gary Power also directed this production and the fact that there wasn't a fluffed line on opening night is a credit to Gary's skills as a director and the commitment of the cast.
- Producers have filled DVDs of hit shows such as Doctor Who and Red Dwarf with extra features such as footage of fluffed lines and errors, and even extra scenes which never made it on air.
- Mathers also fluffed a glorious opportunity when he failed to take Marcus Bai's pass with the home line breached.
- His performance yesterday - including fluffing a great chance early in the second half - displayed little to suggest that this will change.
Synonyms bungle, deliver badly, muddle up, make a mess of bungle, fumble, miss
Origin Late 18th century: probably a dialect alteration of 16th-century flue ‘down, nap, fluff’, apparently from Flemish vluwe. |