Meaning

10 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.

    Flaum, Fluse, Fussel

    пухpux, пушо́кpušók

  2. (countable, uncountable)Anything inconsequential or superficial.

    That article was basically a bunch of fluff. It didn't say anything substantive.

    ерунда́jerundá, чепуха́čepuxá, чушьčušʹ

  3. (countable, informal, uncountable)A lapse or mistake, especially a mistake in an actor's lines.

    про́махprómax, просчётprosčót, опло́шностьoplóšnostʹ

    a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)

  4. (countable, informal, slang, uncountable)A cloth diaper.

  5. (New England, countable, uncountable)Marshmallow creme.

    That New England-style salami and fluff sandwich sure hit the spot!

  6. (countable, uncountable)A passive partner in a lesbian relationship.

  7. (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, countable, euphemistic, uncountable)A fart.

  8. (countable, slang, uncountable)Fan fiction, or part of a fan fiction, which is sweet and feel-good in tone, usually involving romance.

  9. (UK, countable, uncountable)A form of roleplaying which is inconsequential and not related to the plot; often used in the context of (but not limited to) filling time.

  10. (UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable)Short change deliberately given by a railway clerk, to keep back money for himself.

Examples

15 sentences
  1. These pillows need to be fluffed up.

    ruЭти подушки надо взбить.

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  2. Could you fluff my pillow for me?

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  3. I fluffed the pillows on the bed.

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  4. She fluffed the duvet on the bed.

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  5. Let's see if I can fluff up your pillow.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
light fur etc:
something inconsequential:
lapse:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
light fur etc:

Origin

From earlier floow (“woolly substance, down, nap, lint”), also spelt flough, flue, and fle

From earlier floow (“woolly substance, down, nap, lint”), also spelt flough, flue, and flew, from West Flemish vluwe,

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Forms

plural: fluffs
Singularfluff
Pluralfluffs

regular

Synonyms

26 synonyms
anything light, soft or fuzzy:fuzzoosepuff
anything inconsequential or superficial:crufthypeBSall talk
passive in a lesbian relationship:ruffle
sweet or feel-good fanfiction:schmoop
Close in meaning

Word family

20 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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