fluffs

Noun

fluff (countable and uncountable, plural fluffs)

1. Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
   • [W]hen I walk in my fields I can see, down Berwick way, the little fluffs of white smoke which tell me of this strange new hundred-legged beast, with coals for food and a thousand men in its belly, for ever crawling over the border.1892, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “[The Great Shadow] The Right of the Beacons”, in The Great Shadow and Beyond the City, Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co....

   Synonyms:

   fuzz, oose, puff

2. Anything inconsequential or superficial.
   • That article was basically a bunch of fluff. It didn't say anything substantive.

   Synonyms:

   BS, cruft, hype, all talk

3. (informal) A lapse or mistake, especially a mistake in an actor's lines.

   Synonyms:

   flub, blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, error, fault, faux pas, gaffe, lapse

4. (informal, slang) A cloth diaper.
5. (New-England) Marshmallow creme.
   • That New England-style salami and fluff sandwich sure hit the spot!
6. A passive partner in a lesbian relationship.

   Synonyms:

   ruffle

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