Fuff vs Fluff - What's the difference?
fuff | fluff |
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.
To make something fluffy.
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.
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, year=2012
, date=June 19
, author=Phil McNulty
, title=England 1-0 Ukraine
, work=BBC Sport
(intransitive, Australia, euphemistic) To fart.
As verbs the difference between fuff and fluff
is that fuff is (dialect|intransitive) to puff while fluff is to make something fluffy.As a noun fluff is
anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.fluff
English
Noun
(en noun)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 alsoDerived terms
* fluffySee also
* dust * lint * plumageVerb
(en verb)- The cat fluffed its tail.
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