Word Study
fluff
CIDE DICTIONARY
fluff, n. [Cf. 2d Flue.
- Nap or down; flue[2]; soft, downy feathers. [1913 Webster]
- Anything light and downy, whose volume consists mostly of air, such as cotton or down. [PJC]
- Something light and inconsequential; something not to be taken seriously; -- used commonly of literary or dramatic productions, and sometimes of people. [PJC]
- A mistake, especially in the recitation of lines in a drama. [PJC]
fluff, v. t. & i.
To make or become fluffy; to move lightly like fluff. Holmes. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
fluff, n. & v.
--n.
1 soft, light, feathery material coming off blankets etc.
2 soft fur or feathers.
3 sl. a a mistake in delivering theatrical lines, in playing music, etc. b a mistake in playing a game.
--v.
1 tr. & intr. (often foll. by up) shake into or become a soft mass.
2 tr. & intr. colloq. make a mistake in (a theatrical part, a game, playing music, a speech, etc.); blunder (fluffed his opening line).
3 tr. make into fluff.
4 tr. put a soft surface on (the flesh side of leather).
--n.
1 soft, light, feathery material coming off blankets etc.
2 soft fur or feathers.
3 sl. a a mistake in delivering theatrical lines, in playing music, etc. b a mistake in playing a game.
--v.
1 tr. & intr. (often foll. by up) shake into or become a soft mass.
2 tr. & intr. colloq. make a mistake in (a theatrical part, a game, playing music, a speech, etc.); blunder (fluffed his opening line).
3 tr. make into fluff.
4 tr. put a soft surface on (the flesh side of leather).
Idiom
bit of fluff sl. offens. a woman regarded as an object of sexual desire.
Etymology
prob. dial. alt. of flue fluff
THESAURUS
fluff
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fluff
Roughness
N roughness, tooth, grain, texture, ripple, asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity, arborescence, pilosity, brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet, fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi, lovelock, beaucatcher, curl paper, goatee, papillote, scalp lock, plumage, plumosity, plume, panache, crest, feather, tuft, fringe, toupee, wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down, byssus, moss, bur, fluff, knot (convolution), rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted, rugged, rugose, rugous, knurly, asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn, craggy, cragged, crankling, scraggy, prickly, arborescent, leafy, well-wooded, feathery, plumose, plumigerous, laciniate, laciniform, laciniose, pappose, pileous, pilose, trichogenous, trichoid, tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute, crinose, crinite, bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged, fringed, befringed, setous, setose, setaceous, like quills upon the fretful porcupine, rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear, downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly, lanate, lanated, lanuginous, lanuginose, tomentose, fluffy, against the grain, cabello luengo y corto el seso.For further exploring for "fluff" in Webster Dictionary Online
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