fuzzy-ball

Noun

fuzzball (countable and uncountable, plural fuzzballs)

1. A ball of fuzzy material.
   • I sit in my bedroom picking the pilly fuzzballs off my lambswool sweaters and the phone will ring.1988, Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
2. (countable, humorous, informal) Any soft, fuzzy creature.
   • Near-synonyms: furball, fluffball

   Synonyms:

   furball, fluffball

3. (countable) A quantum description of a black hole in superstring theory.
4. (countable) A puffball.
5. (uncountable) An informal American street game resembling baseball.
6. Synonym of pill (“ball of fibers formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing”).

   Synonyms:

   pill