fluff

Etymology
From earlier, also spelt , , and , from , of ultimate origin:


 * Compare 🇨🇬 - see
 * Possibly representing a ; compare 🇨🇬, or perhaps ; compare dialectal 🇨🇬,, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.
 * Alternatively, 🇨🇬 may derive from, from , from.

For words of similar sound and meaning in other languages, compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, Polish ,🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
 * 2) Anything inconsequential or superficial.
 * 3)  A lapse or mistake, especially a mistake in an actor's lines.
 * 4)  A cloth diaper.
 * 5)  Marshmallow creme.
 * That New England-style salami and fluff sandwich sure hit the spot!
 * 1)  A passive partner in a lesbian relationship.
 * 2)  A fart.
 * 3)  Fan fiction, or part of a fan fiction, which is sweet and feel-good in tone, usually involving romance.
 * 4) * 2011, anonymous, quoted in Katherine Larsen & Lynn Zubernis, Fandom at the Crossroads: Celebration, Shame and Fan/producer Relationships, page 138:
 * And when something triggers, I can close the window and go read fluff for hours until I calm down.
 * 1) * 2017, "Flourish Kink", quoted in Ashley J. Barner, The Case for Fanfiction: Exploring the Pleasures and Practices of a Maligned Craft, page 67:
 * 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.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  Short change deliberately given by a railway clerk, to keep back money for himself.
 * 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.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  Short change deliberately given by a railway clerk, to keep back money for himself.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  Short change deliberately given by a railway clerk, to keep back money for himself.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:error
 * See also Thesaurus:error
 * See also Thesaurus:error
 * See also Thesaurus:error
 * See also Thesaurus:error
 * See also Thesaurus:error

Translations

 * Bulgarian: пух, мъх
 * Danish:, fnug, fnuller, nullermænd
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: lanugo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ღინღლი
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Kalmyk: бул
 * Latvian: pūka,
 * Macedonian: влас
 * Maori: perehunga, kerehunga
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: hybelkanin
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, , ,


 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * Russian:, ,


 * Esperanto:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Old High German:
 * Spanish: ,

Verb

 * 1)  To make something fluffy.
 * The cat fluffed its tail.
 * 1)  To become fluffy, puff up.
 * 2)  To move lightly like fluff.
 * 3)  To make a mistake in one's lines.
 * 4)  To do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc.
 * 5)  To break wind, to fart.
 * 6)  To arouse (a male pornographic actor) before filming.
 * 7)  To bring to a state of excitement.
 * 8)  To deliberately shortchange (a railway customer) and keep the money for oneself.
 * 1)  To break wind, to fart.
 * 2)  To arouse (a male pornographic actor) before filming.
 * 3)  To bring to a state of excitement.
 * 4)  To deliberately shortchange (a railway customer) and keep the money for oneself.
 * 1)  To deliberately shortchange (a railway customer) and keep the money for oneself.
 * 1)  To deliberately shortchange (a railway customer) and keep the money for oneself.

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: pöyhiä, pörhentää, ,
 * Galician: ,
 * German: ; aufschütteln
 * Portuguese:
 * Turkish:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: pöyhistyä, pörhistyä,
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Turkish:


 * Danish: kludre med, lave fejl i, bøffe
 * Dutch: zich verspreken
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: ,

Noun

 * 1) fluffy (and absorbent) stuff in a baby's diaper