fluffing

Verb

fluff (third-person singular simple present fluffs, present participle fluffing, simple past and past participle fluffed)

1. (transitive) To make something fluffy.
   • The cat fluffed its tail.
2. (intransitive) To become fluffy, puff up.
3. (intransitive) To move lightly like fluff.
   • She gave the music-stool a twirl or two and fluffed down on to it like a whirl of soap-suds in a hand-basin.1872, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
4. (informal, intransitive, transitive) To make a mistake in one's lines.

   Synonyms:

   flub

5. (informal, transitive) To do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc.
   • Either side of Rooney's fluffed chance, it was a tale of Ukrainian domination as they attacked England down both flanks and showed the greater fluidity of the teams.2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport

   Synonyms:

   flub

6. (Australia, euphemistic, intransitive) To break wind, to fart.

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