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fluffy

/ˈflʌfi/

fluffy adjective: covered with fluff.

fluffy: covered with fluff
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Adjective

fluffy (comparative fluffier, superlative fluffiest)

  1. Covered with fluff.
    • Fluffy bunny rabbits are really nice to stroke.
  2. Light; soft; airy.
    • I like my scrambled eggs to be light and fluffy in texture.
  3. (colloquial) Warm and comforting.
    • Being in love with my boyfriend gives me a fluffy feeling inside.
  4. (colloquial) Not clearly defined or explained; fuzzy.
    • Someone sold you the fluffy idea that brains triumphs^([sic]) over strength when you were picked last for the sports team.2008, R.Safley, Reagan's Game
  5. Lightweight; superficial; lacking depth or seriousness.
    • And she is represented reading with great concentration, and not some fluffy novel but the rather politically oriented and literary Le Figaro, its title prominent if upside down in the foreground.2006, Linda Nochlin, Bathers, Bodies, Beauty: The Visceral Eye, page 271
    • There was, I think, always a fluffy element to the neo-Pagan movement, but since the Internet explosion of the mid-to-late 1990s, it's got much, much worse. Most of it can be blamed on commercial drivers, as the publishers who produced neo-Pagan material (and the authors who work for them) realised...2006, Pyromancer, “Re: The nature of the pagan community”, in uk.religion.pagan (Usenet)

Noun

fluffy (plural fluffies)

  1. (informal) Someone or something that has a fluffy texture.
    • Children can pamper the fluffies in the pets' corner […]2014, William Gray, Cornwall with Kids, page 119
  2. (derogatory, informal) A person who is superficial, who lacks depth or seriousness.
    • The world is overrun with fluffies. There was, I think, always a fluffy element to the neo-Pagan movement, but since the Internet explosion of the mid-to-late 1990s, it's got much, much worse. Most of it can be blamed on commercial drivers, as the publishers who produced neo-Pagan material (and the...2006, Pyromancer, “Re: The nature of the pagan community”, in uk.religion.pagan (Usenet)
  3. (New Zealand) A babycino (frothy milk drink).

Proper noun capitalized: Fluffy

IPA/flʌfi/

Fluffy

  1. A given name for a pet with fluffy hair, often a cat.
    • Joey: That is not a cat.
      Rachel: Yes, it is.
      Ross: Why is it inside out?
      Rachel: Excuse me, but this is a purebred, show-quality Sphinx cat. […] I’m going to go set up a little litter box for Mrs. Whiskerson. [Ross looks at her] Well, what am I going to call her—Fluffy?1999 May 6, Scott Silveri (story), Gregory S. Malins (teleplay), “The One with the Ball” (03:59 from the start), in Friends, season 5, episode 21

fluffy meaning in Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada and Gujarati

fluffy in Hindi

covered with fluff
गुदगुदा gudgudā
light; soft; airy
गुदगुदा gudgudā

fluffy in Malayalam

woolly, fleecy, fuzzy
പൂടപോലത്തെ, പപ്പുപോലത്തെ, രോമസമൃദ്ധമായ, ധാരാളം രോമമുള്ള, മൃദുരോമമുള്ള, പൂടനിറഞ്ഞ

fluffy in Kannada

ಜುಂಗುಗಳಿಂದ ಕೂಡಿದ, ತುಪ್ಪುಳಿನಂತೆ ಮೆದುವಾದ, ಹಗುರವಾದ

fluffy in Gujarati

રુંવાટીવાળું
More languagesFewer languages
fluffy in Nepali
फ्लफी
fluffy in Indonesian
embul, menul, hangat
fluffy in Persian
پشمالو pašmālú
fluffy in Thai
ปุกปุย bpùk-bpui, ขนปุย kǒn-bpui, ปุย bpui, ฟู fuu

Examples of fluffy in a sentence

  • This plant's light and fluffy seeds may be borne by the wind to remote islands.
  • The recipe called for sifted flour so it would be fluffier.
  • The squirrel flourished its fluffy tail about as an alarm signal after its narrow escape from the cat.

All 40 example sentences with fluffy

Synonyms of fluffy

Forms of fluffy

Adjective
comparativefluffier
superlativefluffiest
Noun
pluralfluffies

Origin of fluffy

From fluff + -y. Compare German flauschig (“fluffy”).

From fluffy.

Words formed from fluffy

Phrases with fluffy

Words that rhyme with fluffy

3 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about fluffy

What does fluffy mean?
Fluffy means covered with fluff.
What is fluffy in Hindi?
Fluffy in Hindi is गुदगुदा (gudgudā). See Fluffy meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is fluffy?
Fluffy can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce fluffy?
Fluffy is pronounced /ˈflʌfi/.

Words near fluffy in the dictionary

  1. fluffs up
  2. fluffshot
  3. fluffshots
  4. flufftail
  5. flufftails
  6. fluffy
  7. fluffy bunnies
  8. fluffy bunny
  9. fluffy duck
  10. fluffy ducks
  11. fluffy-backed tit-babbler

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fluffy (page history and authors); Fluffy (page history and authors); fluffy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); fluffy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fluffy (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fluffy (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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