Meaning

Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers..

Definitions by Sense

1. Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
2. Anything inconsequential or superficial.
3. (informal) A lapse or mistake, especially a mistake in an actor's lines.
4. (informal, slang) A cloth diaper.
5. (New England) Marshmallow creme.
6. (LGBTQ) A passive partner in a lesbian relationship.
7. (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, euphemistic) A fart.
8. (fandom slang) Fan fiction, or part of a fan fiction, which is sweet and feel-good in tone, usually involving romance.

Example Sentences

[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.

That article was basically a bunch of fluff. It didn't say anything substantive.

That New England-style salami and fluff sandwich sure hit the spot!

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

Fans prefer fluff to other types of fic. But angst (dramatic stories where characters have a wide range of emotions, including...angsty ones) comes in close second.

Ah, fluff. My happy place. These fics are dedicated to feel-good feelings, which are the very best type of feelings.

"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!"

The cat fluffed its tail.

Word Forms

• fluffs
• fluffing
• fluffed

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Use fluff when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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