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pluff

pluff noun: a puff of smoke or dust.

Noun

pluff (plural pluffs)

  1. (Scotland) A puff of smoke or dust.
  2. (Scotland) A hairdresser's powder puff.
  3. (Scotland) The act of using a powder puff.

Verb

pluff (third-person singular simple present pluffs, present participle pluffing, simple past and past participle pluffed)

  1. To dust or to puff with smoke.
  2. (Scotland) To throw out, as smoke, dust, etc., in puffs.

Proper noun capitalized: Pluff

Pluff (plural Pluffs)

  1. A surname.

Forms of pluff

Noun
pluralpluffs
Verb
third-person singular presentpluffs
present participlepluffing
past participlepluffed
pastpluffed
Proper noun
pluralPluffs

Origin of pluff

Variant of Plouffe.

Words formed from pluff

Questions about pluff

What does pluff mean?
Pluff means a puff of smoke or dust.
What part of speech is pluff?
Pluff can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
What is the plural of pluff?
The plural of pluff is pluffs.

Words near pluff in the dictionary

  1. Plude
  2. pluderhose
  3. Pludes
  4. plue
  5. plues
  6. pluff
  7. pluff mud
  8. pluffed
  9. pluffiness
  10. pluffing
  11. pluffs

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