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Fluff vs Fluffball - What's the difference?

fluff | fluffball |

As nouns the difference between fluff and fluffball

is that fluff is anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers while fluffball is a ball of fluff, or a creature that resembles one.

As a verb fluff

is to make something fluffy.

fluff

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
  • Anything inconsequential or superficial.
  • Lapse, especially a mistake in an actor’s lines.
  • (label) marshmallow creme
  • (label) A passive partner in a lesbian relationship.
  • (Australia, euphemistic) A fart.
  • Synonyms

    * fuzz, puff * (anything inconsequential or superficial) BS, cruft, hype, all talk * (a lapse) blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, error, fault, faux pas, gaffe, lapse, mistake, slip, stumble, thinko * (passive in a lesbian relationship) ruffle * See also

    Derived terms

    * fluffy

    See also

    * dust * lint * plumage

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make something fluffy.
  • The cat fluffed its tail.
  • To become fluffy.
  • (transitive, intransitive, of an actor or announcer) To make a mistake in one’s lines
  • To do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=June 19 , author=Phil McNulty , title=England 1-0 Ukraine , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Either side of Rooney's fluffed chance, it was a tale of Ukrainian domination as they attacked England down both flanks and showed the greater fluidity of the teams.}}
  • (intransitive, Australia, euphemistic) To fart.
  • Derived terms

    * fluffer * fluff up * fluff girl English onomatopoeias ----

    fluffball

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A ball of fluff, or a creature that resembles one.
  • * 2005 , Kathy Salzberg, The everything small dogs book: choose the perfect dog to fit your living space
  • The smallest of the Northern breeds, the Pomeranian is a four-legged fluffball with its thick double coat, small pointed ears, and bushy curled tail up over its back.

    See also

    * furball * fuzzball