fluffy bunny

Noun

fluffy bunny (countable and uncountable, plural fluffy bunnies)

1. (countable, derogatory, informal) A casual, naive practitioner of Wicca or another neo-pagan religion, especially one deemed to have a superficial understanding.
2. (uncountable) Synonym of chubby bunny (“competitive eating game”).
   • Fluffy Bunny, Mary, is a game where you stuff marshmallows into your mouth, and say 'Fluffy Bunny.' The person who can stuff the most marshmallows in their mouth and still say 'Fluffy Bunny' wins.2021 September 1, Julia Lawrinson, Mel and Shell, Fremantle Press, →ISBN, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   chubby bunny

3. (countable, quantum mechanics) Quantum entanglement that occurs in theory but which seldom (or never) arises because of other physical restrictions.
   • The idea of fluffy-bunnies developed from theoretical work undertaken to study the interference fringes that are seen when two Bose-Einstein condensates spatially overlap (20).2005, Jacob Dunningham, Alexander Rau, Keith Burnett, “From pedigree cats to fluffy-bunnies”, in Science, volume 307, number 5711, American Association for the Advancement of Science, →DOI, page 874
   • Because of this a whole different class of states called the fluffy-bunnies arises which are robust entanglements due to the measurements and interactions between particles.2019, KKY Vasura Jayaweera, KAIL Wijewardena Gamalath, “Particle localization via measurement induced entanglement”, in World Scientific News, volume 128, number 2, DARWIN, →ISSN, pages 234–254
4. (countable) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fluffy, bunny.
   • Whether it is a fluffy bunny, a silky guinea pig or a downy hamster, we just love to hold it and feel its softness.2004 May 14, Anne Flood, “10. Cuddly Friends”, in Realistic Pet Portraits in Colored Pencil, Penguin, →ISBN, →OCLC