fluff

Meanings

Noun

Verb

  • To make something fluffy.
  • To become fluffy, puff up.
  • To move lightly like fluff.
  • To make a mistake in one's lines.
  • To do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc.
  • To fart.
  • To arouse (a male pornographic actor) before filming.

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Origin

  • From earlier floow, also spelt flough, flue, and flew, from West Flemish vluwe,
  • of uncertain ultimate origin:
  • Compare Old English flōh - see flaw
  • Possibly representing a ; compare Middle Dutch vloe, or perhaps onomatopoeic; compare dialectal English floose, flooze, fleeze, Danish fnug, Swedish fnugg.
  • Alternatively, West Flemish vluwe may derive from French velu, ultimately from Latin villus ("shaggy hair, tuft of hair").
  • For words of similar sound and meaning in other languages, compare Japanese フワフワ ("lightly, softly"), Hungarian puha (“soft, fluffy”), Polish puchaty (“soft, fluffy”).

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