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pluffy

pluffy adjective: puffy; blown out.

Adjective

pluffy (comparative more pluffy, superlative most pluffy)

  1. (Scotland) puffy; blown out
    • Madame Navarre came bustling through the rear door, a pluffy, busy woman in a large white apron, […]1954, Margaret Cooper Gay, Hatchet in the Sky, page 166

Forms of pluffy

comparativemore pluffy
superlativemost pluffy

Origin of pluffy

From pluff + -y.

Words formed from pluffy

Questions about pluffy

What does pluffy mean?
Pluffy means puffy; blown out.
What part of speech is pluffy?
Pluffy is an adjective.

Words near pluffy in the dictionary

  1. pluff mud
  2. pluffed
  3. pluffiness
  4. pluffing
  5. pluffs
  6. pluffy
  7. plug
  8. plug & play
  9. plug and chug
  10. plug and feather
  11. plug and play

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