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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun fluff has 3 senses
- fluff(n = noun.substance) Array - any light downy material; Array is a kind of material, stuff
- fluff(n = noun.artifact) bagatelle, frippery, frivolity - something of little value or significance; Array is a kind of small beer, trifle, trivia, triviality
- fluff(n = noun.act) Array - a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines); Array is a kind of bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall
Derived form adjective fluffy1
Derived form verb fluff1
Verb fluff has 3 senses
- fluff(v = verb.social) ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil - make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" is one way to fail, go wrong, miscarry
- fluff(v = verb.contact) ruffle - erect or fluff up; "the bird ruffled its feathers" is one way to loosen
- fluff(v = verb.body) tease - ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect; Array is one way to comb, comb out, disentangle
Derived form noun fluff3
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Sample sentence:
They fluff their hair
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
Irish bull, aerate, air, anacoluthon, bad job, ball up, bevue, bloomer, blooper, blow, blubber, blunder, bobble, boggle, bollix, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, boot, botch, breeze, bubble, bull, bungle, butter, catachresis, chaff, chip, clay, clumsy performance, cobweb, cock up, cork, cushion, daintiness, delicacy, dough, down, downiness, drop a brick, drop the ball, duff, dust, ease, eiderdown, error, ether, etourderie, fairy, feather, feather bed, feathers, filminess, fine-grainedness, fineness, fleece, floss, flub, flue, fluffiness, foam, folk etymology, foozle, foul up, froth, fuck up, fumble, fur, fuzz, fuzziness, gaucherie, gentle, girl friend, goof, goof up, gossamer, gossameriness, grammatical error, hash, howler, hypercorrection, hyperform, kapok, knead, lapse, laxate, limber, limber up, lint, loosen, louse up, malaprop, malapropism, marrowsky, mash, massage, mellow, mess, mess up, milden, miscue, mispronunciation, missaying, mistake, mistress, misusage, mollify, mote, muck up, muddle, muff, off day, peach fuzz, pile, pillow, plump, plush, pubescence, pudding, puff, puff up, pull a boner, pulp, putty, refinement, relax, rubber, ruin, sad work, satin, satininess, screw up, shake up, silk, silkiness, slip, smash, smoothness, snafu, soften, soften up, softness, solecism, spoil, sponge, spoonerism, spume, squash, straw, stumble, subdue, supple, swansdown, tenderize, thistledown, tone down, trip, tune down, velvet, velvetiness, wax, wool, zephyrROGET THESAURUS
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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.
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