Fluff
[flʌf]
Definition
(noun.) a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines).
(noun.) any light downy material.
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Definition
(n.) Nap or down; flue; soft, downy feathers.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Nap, down.
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Definition
n. a soft down from cotton &c.: anything downy.—n. Fluff′iness.—adj. Fluff′y.
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Examples
- And then quite suddenly it settled down, hobbled among the grass, and sat considering, its nose twitching like a bit of fluff in the wind. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She stretched out her beautiful arm, with its fluff of green tulle, and touched his chin with her subtle, artist's fingers. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I began to work in a carding-room soon after, and the fluff got into my lungs and poisoned me. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- There sat the canary in a corner, bunched and fluffed up for sleep. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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