fluff Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun any light downy material
  2. noun something of little value or significance
    frippery; bagatelle; frivolity.
  3. noun a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)
  4. verb make a mess of, destroy or ruin
    muck up; foul up; blow; botch up; botch; bollix; fumble; mishandle; bollocks; bumble; ball up; bobble; bollocks up; spoil; bollix up; fuck up; flub; bodge; muff; louse up; mess up; screw up; bungle.
    • I botched the dinner and we had to eat out
    • the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement
  5. verb erect or fluff up
    ruffle.
    • the bird ruffled its feathers
  6. verb ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect
    tease.

WordNet


Fluff noun
Etymology
Cf. 2d Flue. 84.
Definitions
  1. Nap or down; flue; soft, downy feathers.

Webster 1913