• IPA: /flʌf/

fluff (plural fluffs)

1. Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
   • 1892, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “[The Great Shadow] The Right of the Beacons”, in The Great Shadow and Beyond the City, Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., OCLC 1000339207 ↗, page 5 ↗:

     [W]hen I walk in my fields I can see, down Berwick way, the little fluffs of white smoke which tell me of this strange new hundred-legged beast, with coals for food and a thousand men in its belly, for ever crawling over the border.

2. Anything inconsequential or superficial.

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

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

   Synonyms: flub

4. (New England) Marshmallow creme.

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

5. (LGBT) A passive partner in a lesbian relationship.
6. (Australia, euphemistic) A fart.

• (anything light, soft or fuzzy) fuzz, oose (Scotland), puff
• (anything inconsequential or superficial) BS, cruft, hype, all talk
• (a lapse) blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, error, fault, faux pas, gaffe, lapse, mistake, slip, stumble, thinko
• (passive in a lesbian relationship) ruffle
• See also Thesaurus:error

• French: duvet
• German: Flaum, Fluse, Fussel
• Italian: lanugine, fuffa
• Portuguese: felpa, cotão
• Russian: пух
• Spanish: pelusa

• French: broutille, babiole
• Italian: fuffa
• Portuguese: argueiro, ninharia
• Russian: ерунда́

• Russian: про́мах

fluff (fluffs, present participle fluffing; past and past participle fluffed)

1. (transitive) To make something fluffy.

   The cat fluffed its tail.

2. (intransitive) To become fluffy, puff up.
3. (intransitive) To move lightly like fluff.
4. (informal, transitive, intransitive, of an actor or announcer) To make a mistake in one's lines.

   Synonyms: flub

5. (informal, transitive) To do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc.

   Synonyms: flub

6. (intransitive, Australia, euphemistic) To fart.
7. (transitive, slang) To arouse (a male pornographic actor) before filming.
   • 2008, Blue Blake, Out of the Blue: Confessions of an Unlikely Porn Star (page 187)

     To get Lance Bronson hard, Chi Chi, in desperation, called Sharon Kane to come and fluff him on the set. People were always asking me how they could get a job as a fluffer.

• German: aufplustern
• Portuguese: afofar

• German: plustern

• German: verpatzen, versprechen