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noun

Fluff n.

Nap or down; flue(2); soft, downy feathers.

Hence: Anything light and downy, whose volume consists mostly of air, such as cotton or down.

Something light and inconsequential; something not to be taken seriously; used commonly of literary or dramatic productions, and sometimes of people.

A mistake, especially in the recitation of lines in a drama.

verb

Fluff v. t. & v. i. To make or become fluffy; to move lightly like fluff.

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.

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Etymology of 'Fluff'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fluff" Quotes from Famous Books

... that was!" Beth observed. "Did you notice the sea? It was the sort of sea that might make one long to be a crab to live in it. Though a crab is not the animal that I should specially choose to be. I long to be a cat sometimes. To be able to fluff out my fur and spit would be such a satisfaction. There are feelings that can be expressed in no other way. And then to be able to purr! Purring is the one sound in nature that expresses perfect comfort ...

— The Beth Book - Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius • Sarah Grand

... gorgeously eyed wings to the sun's warmth; a blackbird with brilliant yellow bill stood astride a peach twig and poured out a bubbling and incessant melody full of fluted grace notes. And on the grass oval a kitten frisked with the ghosts of last month's dandelions, racing after the drifting fluff and occasionally keeling over to attack its own tail, after the ...

— The Dark Star • Robert W. Chambers

... wind on the Bowery, Blowing the fluff of night shelters Off bedraggled garments, And agitating the gutters, that eject little spirals of vapor Like ...

— The Ghetto and Other Poems • Lola Ridge

... at the cobweb where that big fly is buzzing loud enough to deafen me, and at those bits of fluff under the bed, and at that dust on the windows ...

— Balzac • Frederick Lawton

... I've been born for is just to work my heart and my life away, and to sicken i' this dree place, wi' them mill-noises in my ears for ever, until I could scream out for them to stop, and let me have a little piece o' quiet—and wi' the fluff filling my lungs, until I thirst to death for one long deep breath o' the clear air yo' speak on—and my mother gone, and I never able to tell her again how I loved her, and o' all my troubles—I think if this life is th' end, and ...

— North and South • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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