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fluffery

fluffery noun: anything lightweight and overly ornamental or superfluous; fluff; froth.

Noun

fluffery (countable and uncountable, plural flufferies)

  1. Anything lightweight and overly ornamental or superfluous; fluff; froth.
    • The Valley, as it has always been known in Virginia, became the site of a relatively democratic society based on a small-farm economy, with few slaves and little aristocratic fluffery.1964, James Reichley, States in Crisis: Politics in Ten American States, 1950-1962, page 5
    • The room is small, the walls smothered with fluffy pink and blue towels, the floor ankle deep with more pink fluffery. The air is perfumed, the sink is spotless, bathtub shiny. The toilet paper is pale baby blue.1969, Robert Hunter, Erebus, page 179

Forms of fluffery

pluralflufferies

Origin of fluffery

From fluff + -ery.

Questions about fluffery

What does fluffery mean?
Fluffery means anything lightweight and overly ornamental or superfluous; fluff; froth.
What part of speech is fluffery?
Fluffery is a noun.
What is the plural of fluffery?
The plural of fluffery is flufferies.

Words near fluffery in the dictionary

  1. fluffer
  2. flufferies
  3. fluffernutter
  4. fluffernutters
  5. fluffers
  6. fluffery
  7. fluffhead
  8. fluffheads
  9. fluffier
  10. fluffies
  11. fluffiest

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