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noun

Fluff n.

Nap or down; flue(2); soft, downy feathers.

Hence: Anything light and downy, whose volume consists mostly of air, such as cotton or down.

Something light and inconsequential; something not to be taken seriously; used commonly of literary or dramatic productions, and sometimes of people.

A mistake, especially in the recitation of lines in a drama.

verb

Fluff v. t. & v. i. To make or become fluffy; to move lightly like fluff.

Fluff v. 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.

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Etymology of 'Fluff'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fluff" Quotes from Famous Books

... particularly excellent to enrich and purify the blood is because they contain a larger percentage of iron than any other fruit. It is a shame ever to embarrass and humiliate the luscious things by imprisoning them in the indigestible layers of a shortcake. A fluff of pure powdered sugar and a dash of whipped cream and you have a toothsome dish fit for the most finicky god that ever graced Olympia's ...

— The Woman Beautiful - or, The Art of Beauty Culture • Helen Follett Stevans

... The atmosphere has that absolute transparency, that distance and clearness which follows a great fall of rain; but a thick pall, still heavy with moisture, remains suspended over all, and on the foliage of the hanging woods still float great flakes of gray fluff, which remain there, motionless. In the foreground, in front of and below this almost fantastic landscape, is a miniature garden where two beautiful white cats are taking the air, amusing themselves by pursuing each other through the paths of a Lilliputian labyrinth, shaking ...

— Madame Chrysantheme Complete • Pierre Loti

... had fallen the day before, and now wherever the ground was not paved the grass shone green. The birch trees in the gardens looked as if they were strewn with green fluff, the wild cherry and the poplars unrolled their long, balmy buds, and in shops and dwelling-houses the double window-frames were being removed and the ...

— Resurrection • Count Leo Tolstoy

... hungry little scissors agleam in her hand, trotted in alacriously. She sat Charles-Norton on the edge of the tub and bent over him her happy, humming head. Zip-zip-zip, went the scissors, zip-zip—and a soft white fluff that looked like the stuffing of a pillow (an A-one pillow; not the kind upon which Charles-Norton and Dolly laid their modest heads) eddied slowly to Charles-Norton's feet while he shivered slightly to the coldness of the steel. (Dolly ...

— The Trimming of Goosie • James Hopper

... of course this element of "fluffiness" exists on the outside of any great movement. It has to be blown away so that the hard surface of genuine and practical endeavor can be seen and felt. And that is what happened to England. The "fluff" disappeared and women knew where they were, and men realized that women possess a force, a firm and splendid resolve, that gives them the right to step beside men ...

— Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights • Kelly Miller

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