Fleecy vs Fluffy - What's the difference?
fleecy | fluffy |
Resembling or covered in fleece.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
*1920 , :
*:Here the galley paused not at all, but floated easily in the blue of the sky among fleecy clouds tinted with rose.
Covered with fluff.
Light; soft; airy.
(colloquial) Warm and comforting.
(colloquial) Not clearly defined or explained; fuzzy.
* 2008 , R.Safley, Reagan's Game
Lightweight; superficial; lacking depth or seriousness.
* 2006 , Linda Nochlin, Bathers, Bodies, Beauty: The Visceral Eye (page 271)
Someone or something that is fluffy
As adjectives the difference between fleecy and fluffy
is that fleecy is resembling or covered in fleece while fluffy is covered with fluff.As a noun fluffy is
someone or something that is fluffy.As a proper noun Fluffy is
a popular given name for a pet, often for a cat.fleecy
English
Adjective
(er)fluffy
English
Adjective
(er)- Fluffy bunny rabbits are really nice to stroke.
- I like my scrambled eggs to be light and fluffy in texture.
- Being in love with my boyfriend gives me a fluffy feeling inside.
- Someone sold you the fluffy idea that brains triumphs over strength when you were picked last for the sports team.
- And she is represented reading with great concentration, and not some fluffy novel but the rather politically oriented and literary Le Figaro , its title prominent if upside down in the foreground.
