fluff
/flʌf/ noun B2- Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
- Anything inconsequential or superficial. · That article was basically a bunch of fluff. It didn't say anything substantive.
- A lapse or mistake, especially a mistake in an actor's lines.
- A cloth diaper.
- Marshmallow creme. · That New England-style salami and fluff sandwich sure hit the spot!
- A passive partner in a lesbian relationship.
- Fan fiction, or part of a fan fiction, which is sweet and feel-good in tone, usually involving romance.
Plural fluffs
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He could fluff up his tail till it looked like a bottle brush, and his war cry as he scuttled through the long grass was: “Rikk-tikk-tikki-tikki-tchk!”
They had made a beautiful nest by pulling two big leaves together and stitching them up the edges with fibers, and had filled the hollow with cotton and downy fluff.
“Well,” said Rikki-tikki, and his tail began to fluff up again, “marks or no marks, do you think it is right for you to eat fledglings out of a nest?”
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