fluff
/flʌf/ verb C2- To make something fluffy. · The cat fluffed its tail.
- To become fluffy, puff up.
- To move lightly like fluff.
- To make a mistake in one's lines.
- To do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc.
- To arouse (a male pornographic actor) before filming.
- To bring to a state of excitement.
He/she/it fluffs · Past fluffed · Past participle fluffed · -ing form fluffing
Verb forms
- Base form
- fluff
- He/she/it
- fluffs
- Past
- fluffed
- Past participle
- fluffed
- -ing form
- fluffing
From the library
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!”
Rikki-tikki liked it immensely, and when it was finished he went out into the veranda and sat in the sunshine and fluffed up his fur to make it dry to the roots.
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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