fluffnoun [ U ]
uk/flʌf/us/flʌf/fluff noun [ U ] (SOFT MASS)
small, loose pieces of wool or other soft material, or the down (= soft new hairs) on a young animal:
He brushed the fluff off his coat.
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The skin, hair & bone of non-human animals
- -haired
- alpaca
- coat
- coated
- coney
- cony
- dander
- hairless
- hairy
- ivory
- mink
- plumage
- plumule
- prickle
- quill
- spinneret
- vellum
- whisker
- wire-haired
- wool
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fluff noun [ U ] (ENTERTAINMENT)
US entertainment that is not serious or valuable
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Types of film, play, book etc.
- adaptation
- anime
- blockbuster
- epic
- epigram
- epistle
- film noir
- hagiography
- hokum
- indie
- lampoon
- mystery
- pap
- pastiche
- pastoral
- prose
- saga
- satire
- slow
- the big screen 1
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fluffverb [ T ]
uk/flʌf/us/flʌf/US also flub informalmainly UK to fail something or do it badly:
I fluffed my driving test three times before I finally got it.
All the time I was acting with him, I never once heard him fluff his lines (= say something wrong when acting).
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Failing and doing badly
- at-risk
- backbencher
- balls-up
- be running on empty idiom
- beat a dead horse idiom
- crack
- crash
- draw
- fail
- fall apart
- flunk out
- fray around/at the edges idiom
- fumble
- get off on the right/wrong foot idiom
- give up on sb/sth
- screw (sth) up
- sink like a stone idiom 1
- sink like a stone
- so much for sth idiom
- stagnate
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Phrasal verb(s)
fluff sth up