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floofy

/ˈfluː.fi/

floofy adjective: feathery; puffy, light, airy or windswept.

Adjective

floofy (comparative floofier, superlative floofiest)

  1. (informal) Feathery; puffy, light, airy or windswept.
    • “Make it floofier,” Meghan told Stevie, who was spraying Gotta-Be-Glued hairspray onto her bangs.2010, Kate Messner, Sugar and Ice, Walker Books for Young Readers, →ISBN
    • Look, I get it. I'm like one of those nice ladies in a long skirt with wildflowers in her floofy hair who prattles about magic and Mother Earth and spiritual guides and who are tolerated because they seem harmless enough in their obviously crazy way. Except I don't own any skirts and my hair's only...2012, C.E. Murphy, Walking Dead, →ISBN
  2. (colloquial) Elaborate, frilly, fussy or overwrought in a silly or purely decorative way.
    • By “complicated food,” we mean “floofy food.” It's doing far more to our food than is necessary.2006, Rick Burgess, Bill Bussey, Rick and Bubba's Expert Guide to God, Country, Family, and Anything Else We Can Think Of, →ISBN
    • This book is for those wonderful, irreplaceable people who feed me chocolate and floofy drinks when I'm miserable and depressed, and celebrate with chocolate and floofy drinks when things go well for me.2010, Nina Harper, Succubus In The City, →ISBN
  3. (colloquial) Fluttery; emotional, worked up, especially over inconsequentials.
    • Well, to be frank, Madame, when Mademoiselle Leocadia Gardi entered my cafe the first time, I must confess ... I just went all floofy!2000, Jeffrey Hatcher, To Fool the Eye, →ISBN, page 30
    • In personality, though, she did seem a little...floofy.2012, Jennifer Greene, Blame It On Cupid, →ISBN

Examples of floofy in a sentence

  • Except I don't own any skirts and my hair's only floofy right when I get up.2012, C.E. Murphy, Walking Dead, →ISBN:
  • Then comes the bonus— in the fall, the wispy stems called “fern” become a blaze of yellow, floofy, feathery stems.2012, Joy Bossi, Karen Bastow, The Incredible Edible Landscape, →ISBN, page 15:
  • She'd always been stuck with naturally curly hair, but now the loose springy curls were doing whatever they wanted.To her, it was starting to look hopelessly floofy.2012, Jennifer Greene, Rock Solid, →ISBN:
  • Do you love birds with floofy, profuse feathering?2014, Lissa Lucas, Traci Torres, My Pet Chicken Handbook, →ISBN:

Forms of floofy

comparativefloofier
superlativefloofiest

Origin of floofy

Blend of fluffy + poofy.

Words formed from floofy

Words that rhyme with floofy

Questions about floofy

What does floofy mean?
Floofy means feathery; puffy, light, airy or windswept.
How do you use floofy in a sentence?
Except I don't own any skirts and my hair's only floofy right when I get up.
What part of speech is floofy?
Floofy is an adjective.
How do you pronounce floofy?
Floofy is pronounced /ˈfluː.fi/.

Words near floofy in the dictionary

  1. floofier
  2. floofiest
  3. floofiness
  4. floofing
  5. floofs
  6. floofy
  7. floogies
  8. floogy
  9. flooie
  10. flook
  11. flookan

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