fluff
(noun) a blunder (especially an actor’s forgetting the lines)
bagatelle, fluff, frippery, frivolity
(noun) something of little value or significance
fluff
(noun) any light downy material
tease, fluff
(verb) ruffle (one’s hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect
ruffle, fluff
(verb) erect or fluff up; “the bird ruffled its feathers”
botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up
(verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin; “I botched the dinner and we had to eat out”; “the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
fluff (plural fluffs)
Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
Anything inconsequential or superficial.
(informal) A lapse or mistake, especially a mistake in an actor's lines.
Synonym: flub
(New England) Marshmallow creme.
(LGBT) A passive partner in a lesbian relationship.
(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 error
fluff (third-person singular simple present fluffs, present participle fluffing, simple past and past participle fluffed)
(transitive) To make something fluffy.
(intransitive) To become fluffy, puff up.
(intransitive) To move lightly like fluff.
(informal, transitive, intransitive, of an actor or announcer) To make a mistake in one's lines.
Synonym: flub
(informal, transitive) To do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc.
Synonym: flub
(intransitive, Australia, euphemistic) To fart.
(transitive, slang) To arouse (a male pornographic actor) before filming.
Source: Wiktionary
Fluff, n. Etym: [Cf. 2d Flue.
Definition: Nap or down; flue; soft, downy feathers.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
7 June 2025
(noun) a unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
