What is "fluff" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does fluff mean in English? Meaning of fluff definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "fluff" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "fluff": any light downy material

Noun

  • Meaning: any light downy material
  • Synonyms: fluff
  • Hypernyms: material stuff
  • Meaning of "fluff": make a mess of, destroy or ruin

    Verb

  • Meaning: make a mess of, destroy or ruin
  • Example: I botched the dinner and we had to eat out the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement
  • Synonyms: ball up blow bobble bodge bollix bollix up bollocks bollocks up botch botch up bumble bungle flub fluff foul up fuck up fumble louse up mess up mishandle muck up muff screw up spoil
  • Hypernyms: fail go wrong miscarry
  • Meaning of "fluff": something of little value or significance

    Noun

  • Meaning: something of little value or significance
  • Synonyms: bagatelle fluff frippery frivolity
  • Hypernyms: small beer trifle trivia triviality
  • Meaning of "fluff": erect or fluff up

    Verb

  • Meaning: erect or fluff up
  • Example: the bird ruffled its feathers
  • Synonyms: fluff ruffle
  • Hypernyms: loosen
  • Also see: fluff up plump up shake up
  • Meaning of "fluff": a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)

    Noun

  • Meaning: a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)
  • Synonyms: fluff
  • Hypernyms: bloomer blooper blunder boner boo-boo botch bungle flub foul-up fuckup pratfall
  • Meaning of "fluff": ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect

    Verb

  • Meaning: ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect
  • Synonyms: fluff tease
  • Hypernyms: comb comb out disentangle
  • Synonyms:

    fuzz, fleece, wool, lint, feathers, floss, eiderdown, miscalculation, miscue, bungling, oversight, flub, muddle, blooper, muff, fumble, slip, error, miss, stumble, false step, slipup,

    Antonyms:

    success, correction,

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