FLUFF
Dictionary entry overview: What does fluff mean?
• FLUFF (noun)
The noun FLUFF has 3 senses:
1. any light downy material
2. something of little value or significance
3. a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)
Familiarity information: FLUFF used as a noun is uncommon.
• FLUFF (verb)
The verb FLUFF has 3 senses:
1. make a mess of, destroy or ruin
2. erect or fluff up
3. ruffle (one's hair) by combing towards the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect
Familiarity information: FLUFF used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• FLUFF (noun)
Meaning:
Any light downy material
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("fluff" is a kind of...):
material; stuff (the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object)
Meaning:
Something of little value or significance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
frippery; bagatelle; fluff; frivolity
Hypernyms ("fluff" is a kind of...):
small beer; trifle; trivia; triviality (something of small importance)
Meaning:
A blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("fluff" is a kind of...):
bloomer; blooper; blunder; boner; boo-boo; botch; bungle; flub; foul-up; fuckup; pratfall (an embarrassing mistake)
• FLUFF (verb)
Meaning:
Make a mess of, destroy or ruin
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
bungle; flub; fluff; foul up; fuck up; louse up; mess up; mishandle; muck up; bumble; botch up; ball up; bobble; bodge; bollix; bollix up; bollocks; bollocks up; botch; spoil; muff; screw up; fumble; blow
Context examples:
I botched the dinner and we had to eat out / the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement
Hypernyms (to "fluff" is one way to...):
fail; go wrong; miscarry (be unsuccessful)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Erect or fluff up
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
fluff; ruffle
Context example:
the bird ruffled its feathers
Hypernyms (to "fluff" is one way to...):
loosen (make less dense)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Also:
fluff up (make fuller by shaking)
Meaning:
Ruffle (one's hair) by combing towards the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
fluff; tease
Hypernyms (to "fluff" is one way to...):
comb; comb out; disentangle (smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They fluff their hair
