Fluffy vs Floppy - What's the difference?
fluffy | floppy |
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
Limp, not hard, firm, or rigid; flexible.
* 2005 , , Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 3,
(computing) A floppy disk
As adjectives the difference between fluffy and floppy
is that fluffy is covered with fluff while floppy is limp, not hard, firm, or rigid; flexible.As nouns the difference between fluffy and floppy
is that fluffy is someone or something that is fluffy while floppy is a floppy disk.As a proper noun Fluffy
is a popular given name for a pet, often for a cat.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.
Noun
(fluffies)floppy
English
Adjective
(er)- The smile, the white collar worn with a dark shirt, the floppy breast-pocket handkerchief would surely be famous when the chaps in the rows behind were mere forgotten grins and frowns.
