fluff meaning

Noun: fluff  flúf

1. Any light downy material 
2. Something of little value or significance
   - bagatelle, frippery, frivolity 
3. A blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)

Verb: fluff  flúf

1. Make a mess of, destroy or ruin
   - botch, bodge [Brit], bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub [N. Amer], screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, bobble [N. Amer], mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, bugger, balls up 
2. Erect or fluff up
   - ruffle 
3. Ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect
   - tease

Derived forms: fluffing, fluffed, fluffs

See also: fluff up, fluffy

Type of: bloomer, blooper [N. Amer], blue [Austral, NZ], blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, comb, comb out, disentangle, fail, flub [N. Amer], foul-up, go wrong, loosen, material, miscarry, pratfall, small beer, stuff, trifle, trivia, triviality

Encyclopedia: Fluff

[American slang]
n. nonsense; irrelevant stuff.
• This is just a lot of fluff. Nothing substantial at all.
• Cut out the fluff and talk straight.

[British slang]
Verb. To make a mistake during a particular endevour, such as during a performance of a play. E.g."I've just fluffed my lines.”

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1. clinging bits of fiber and fluff; fuzz
2. the chicks looked like little round balls of fluff
3. woolen blankets often have fluff on them
4. my best sweater is covered with fluff
5. @fluff up your tail, and sing this fighting song