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fluff
(flŭf)n.
1. Light down or fuzz, as on a young bird or on a dandelion or milkweed seed.
2. Something having a very light, soft, or frothy consistency or appearance: a fluff of meringue; a fluff of cloud.
3. Something of little substance or consequence, especially:
a. Light or superficial entertainment: The movie was just another bit of fluff from Hollywood.
b. Inflated or padded material: The report was mostly fluff, with little new information.
4. The parts of a junked car that are not metal and cannot be recycled.
5. Informal An error, especially in the delivery of lines, as by an actor or announcer.
v. fluffed, fluff·ing, fluffs
v.tr.
1. To make fluffy: fluff a pillow; a squirrel fluffing out its tail.
2. Informal
a. To ruin or mar by a mistake or blunder: They fluffed their chance to participate in the playoffs by losing their last three games.
b. To forget or botch (one's lines).
3. Vulgar Slang To cause (a man) to be sufficiently aroused so that he is able to have sexual intercourse, especially in a pornographic film.
v.intr.
1. To become fluffy.
2. Informal To make an error, especially to forget or botch one's lines.
[Origin unknown.]
fluff′er n.
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fluff
(flʌf)n
1. (Textiles) soft light particles, such as the down or nap of cotton or wool
2. any light downy substance
3. an object, matter, etc, of little importance; trifle
4. informal a mistake, esp in speaking or reading lines or performing music
5. informal a young woman (esp in the phrase a bit of fluff)
vb
6. to make or become soft and puffy by shaking or patting; puff up
7. informal to make a mistake in performing (an action, dramatic speech, music, etc)
[C18: perhaps from flue2]
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fluff
(flʌf)n.
1. light downy particles, as of cotton.
2. a soft light downy mass.
3. something light or frivolous: The book is pure fluff, but fun to read.
4. an error or blunder, esp. an actor's memory lapse in the delivery of lines.
v.t. 5. to make fluffy; shake or puff out into a fluffy mass: to fluff up the pillows.
6. to make a mistake in: The leading man fluffed his lines.
v.i. 7. to become fluffy; move, float, or settle down like fluff.
8. to make a mistake, esp. in performing.
fluff′er, n.
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fluff
Past participle: fluffed
Gerund: fluffing
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Noun | 1. | fluff - any light downy material |
2. | fluff - something of little value or significance | |
3. | fluff - a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines) | |
Verb | 1. | fluff - 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" |
2. | fluff - erect or fluff up; "the bird ruffled its feathers" loosen - make less dense; "loosen the soil" | |
3. | fluff - ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect comb out, comb, disentangle - smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb; "comb your hair before dinner"; "comb the wool" |
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fluff
noun
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fluff
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Translations
وَبَر الصوف، زَغَبيُخْطِئ في عَمَل الشَّيءيَنْفِشُ الرّيش
chmýřínačechratnačepýřit senatřástzkazit
fnugkikserystespolere
רעש וצלצולים
klúîralóÿfa; hrista
prašautipūkaipūkeliaipurentipurus
pieļaut kļūmipūkasaboztsajaukt tekstuuzbužināt
našuchoriťpáperšuchoriť
sürçmektüy/hav döküntüsütüylerini kabartmakyanlış okumak
fluff
[flʌf]Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
fluff
n no pl (on birds, young animals) → Flaum m; (from material) → Fusseln pl; (= dust) → Staubflocken pl; a bit of fluff → eine Fussel/eine Staubflocke; (hum inf) → eine Mieze (inf)
vt
(also fluff out) feathers → aufplustern; pillow → aufschütteln
opportunity, lines in play, entrance → vermasseln (inf)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
fluff
[flʌf]1. n (from blankets) → pelucchi mpl; (of chicks, kittens) → lanugine f
2. vt
a. (also fluff out) → rendere soffice or vaporoso/a; (feathers) → arruffare
to fluff up the pillows → sprimacciare i cuscini
to fluff up the pillows → sprimacciare i cuscini
b. (fam) (make mistake in) → impaperarsi nel recitare
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
fluff
(flaf) noun small pieces of soft, wool-like material from blankets etc. My coat is covered with fluff.
verb1. (often with out or up) to make full and soft like fluff. The bird fluffed out its feathers; Fluff up the pillows and make the invalid more comfortable.
2. to make a mistake in doing (something). The actress fluffed her lines; The golfer fluffed his stroke.
ˈfluffy adjective1. soft and woolly. a fluffy kitten.
2. soft, light and full of air. She cooked a fluffy omelette.
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