fluff

noun fluffs

1. countable, uncountable Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers. [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.

   Similar: fuzz, oose, puff

2. countable, uncountable Anything inconsequential or superficial. That article was basically a bunch of fluff. It didn't say anything substantive.

   Similar: BS, cruft, hype, all talk

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

   Similar: flub, blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, error, fault, faux pas, gaffe, lapse, mistake, slip

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.

   Similar: ruffle

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. And when something triggers, I can close the window and go read fluff for hours until I calm down.

   Opposite: smut

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. "What?" cried the counter-man, indignantly. "Been a railwayman all these years, and don't know what fluff is? Why, 'pon me word, you deserve to get the sack!"

Similar: schmoop

verb fluffs · fluffing · 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. She gave the music-stool a twirl or two and fluffed down on to it like a whirl of soap-suds in a hand-basin.
4. informal, intransitive, transitive, of an actor or announcer To make a mistake in one's lines.

   Similar: flub

5. informal, transitive To do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc. Either side of Rooney's fluffed chance, it was a tale of Ukrainian domination as they attacked England down both flanks and showed the greater fluidity of the teams.

   Similar: flub

6. Australia, euphemistic, intransitive To break wind, to fart.
7. slang, transitive To arouse (a male pornographic actor) before filming. 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.
8. broadly, slang, transitive To bring to a state of excitement. The warmup guy — as I now know is common for live audiences in taped television performances — kept fluffing the crowd like they were preschoolers. “Now what are you going to do when we introduce the first comedian?” Wild cheers. “C'mon, that's not good enough! Let's try it again! What are you going
9. UK, obsolete, slang To deliberately shortchange (a railway customer) and keep the money for oneself. A genial counter-man told Mr. Manners that, if he played artful, he might even now obtain the position of outside porter; you got no pay there, but you could gain a moderate competency by fluffing.