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[ UK /flˈʌf/ ]
[ US /ˈfɫəf/ ]
NOUN
  1. something of little value or significance
  2. a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)
  3. any light downy material
VERB
  1. ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect
  2. make a mess of, destroy or ruin
    the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement
    I botched the dinner and we had to eat out
  3. erect or fluff up
    the bird ruffled its feathers

How To Use fluff In A Sentence

  • I picked a piece of fluff off my shiny black suit.
  • ‘Ah Dublin, you're giving it away,’ he wailed in the 55th minute, as the Dublin defence fluffed its lines yet again, giving Laois another unearned scoring opportunity.
  • WHAT are the white fluffy bits on my moth orchid? The Sun
  • Vanishing, with a quick flirt of gingham apron-strings, she reappeared in considerably less than a "trice" as a fluffy Strictly business: more stories of the four million
  • It appears one of the (ahem) podium girls (aka fluffers) is measuring Alberto's johnson (or juan-hijo) and reporting the result as "five". The Schlock of the New: Dirty Salutes, Bold Claims, and Loud Prints
  • He fluffed up pillows and put them against the bedstead.
  • Wool is fluffy and airy so it serves as an insulator to prevent the heat of the body from escaping.
  • She clutched a fluffy toy dog as both were arrested. The Sun
  • The bed was rickety, with a thin knotty mattress; the sand-colored walls were scratched and gouged; in every corner, under everything, were fluffy dust and cigar ashes; on the tilted wash-stand was a nicked and squatty pitcher; the only chair was a grim straight object of spotty varnish; but there was an altogether splendid gilt and rose cuspidor. Main Street
  • As wet, fluffy snow fell throughout the day, many protestors began tossing snowballs at riot police.
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