Meaning

(informal) Feathery; puffy, light, airy or windswept..

Definitions by Sense

1. (informal) Feathery; puffy, light, airy or windswept.
2. (colloquial) Elaborate, frilly, fussy or overwrought in a silly or purely decorative way.
3. (colloquial) Fluttery; emotional, worked up, especially over inconsequentials.

Example Sentences

“Make it floofier,” Meghan told Stevie, who was spraying Gotta-Be-Glued hairspray onto her bangs.

Look, I get it. I'm like one of those nice ladies in a long skirt with wildflowers in her floofy hair who prattles about magic and Mother Earth and spiritual guides and who are tolerated because they seem harmless enough in their obviously crazy way. Except I don't own any skirts and my hair's only floofy right when I get up.

A well-prepared bed can supply asparagus for years and years. Then comes the bonus— in the fall, the wispy stems called “fern” become a blaze of yellow, floofy, feathery stems.

She'd always been stuck with naturally curly hair, but now the loose springy curls were doing whatever they wanted.To her, it was starting to look hopelessly floofy.

Do you love birds with floofy, profuse feathering?

The more wrapping you can do here the floofier your pompom will be.

The first song’s album artwork pops up on my phone, showing a blond woman with the floofiest bangs and bouffant you ever did see.

She was so grateful to have a best friend who really understood her, beneath all the floofy fur. And speaking of that floofy fur—Lulu knew it was a bit floofier than usual. She needed a trim.

Word Forms

• floofier
• floofiest

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