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fuff

UK/fʌf/

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Australia/fɐf/

fuff verb: to puff.

Verb

fuff (third-person singular simple present fuffs, present participle fuffing, simple past and past participle fuffed)

  1. (ambitransitive, dialectal) To puff.
    • cats fuffing and fighting1828, Mansie Waunch, The Life of Mansie Wauch, Tailor in Dalkeith

Noun

fuff (plural fuffs)

  1. (dialectal) A puff.
  2. (dialectal) The spitting of a cat.
  3. (dialectal) A burst of anger.

Forms of fuff

Verb
third-person singular presentfuffs
present participlefuffing
past participlefuffed
pastfuffed
Noun
pluralfuffs

Origin of fuff

Imitative. Compare puff.

Words that rhyme with fuff

27 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about fuff

What does fuff mean?
Fuff means to puff.
What part of speech is fuff?
Fuff can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce fuff?
Fuff is pronounced /fʌf/ (UK).
What is the past tense of fuff?
The past tense of fuff is fuffed.

Words near fuff in the dictionary

  1. Fuerth
  2. fuet
  3. fuets
  4. fufanu
  5. Fufeng
  6. fuff
  7. fuffed
  8. fuffing
  9. fuffle
  10. fuffled
  11. fuffles

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