Dictionary Definition
fluff
Noun
1 any light downy material
3 a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the
lines)
Verb
1 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" [syn: botch, bumble, fumble, botch up,
muff, blow, flub, screw up,
ball up,
spoil, muck up, bungle, bollix, bollix up,
bollocks, bollocks up,
bobble, mishandle, louse up,
foul up,
mess up,
fuck
up]
2 erect or fluff up; "the bird ruffled its
feathers" [syn: ruffle]
3 ruffle (one's hair) by combing towards the ends
towards the scalp, for a full effect [syn: tease]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /flʌf/, /flVf/
- Rhymes with: -ʌf
Noun
Derived terms
Translations
light fur etc
something inconsequential
- Dutch: akkefietje
actor’s mistake
- Dutch: verspreking, blooper
- German: Patzer
passive partner in lesbian relationship
Verb
- To make something fluffy.
- To become fluffy.
- In the context of "intransitive|of an actor or announcer": To make a mistake in one’s lines
Translations
make fluffy
- Dutch: opkloppen, pluizen
- German: aufplustern
become fluffy
- Dutch: pluizen
- German: plustern
make a mistake in one’s lines
- Dutch: zich verspreken
- German: verpatzen, versprechen
Derived terms
Extensive Definition
Fluff may be:
- Fluff, a species in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Alan Freeman, a radio DJ
- Michael Meinhart, a radio DJ from Columbus, Ohio
- Marshmallow creme, a food product
- In pornography, fluffing
- Fluff, a character in the Hospital Radio series "The Space Gypsy Adventures"
- The third album released by the Swedish music group Atomic Swing
- Short for the art collective The Fluff Constructivists
- Belly button fluff, also known as navel lint
- A term for anything shallow or superficial. It can be applied derogatively, such as to describe news media; and neutrally, such as to describe the portions of role-playing game books that are not about rules mechanics.
- "Fluff", an instrumental song on Black Sabbath's album Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
- A Swedish punk band called Fluff
- An acting term - to fluff a line is to forget a line, or misspeak it
- Large cheeks on the face, for example the cheeks of a baby.
- Fluff Friends, a game created by Mike Sego 'www.fluff-friends.com'
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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, zephyr