Pluff vs Fluff - What's the difference?
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(Scotland) A puff of smoke or dust.
(Scotland) A hairdresser's powder puff.
(Scotland) The act of using a powder puff.
To dust or to puff with smoke.
(Scotland) To throw out, as smoke, dust, etc., in puffs. 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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(intransitive, Australia, euphemistic) To fart.
As nouns the difference between pluff and fluff
is that pluff is a puff of smoke or dust while fluff is anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.As verbs the difference between pluff and fluff
is that pluff is to dust or to puff with smoke while fluff is to make something fluffy.pluff
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(en noun)Verb
(en verb)fluff
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* 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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