For words of similar sound and meaning in other languages, compareJapaneseフワフワ(fuwafuwa,“lightly, softly”),Hungarianpuha(“soft, fluffy”), Polishpuchaty(“soft, fluffy”),Romanianpuf(“down, peachfuzz, soft hair of some animals, powderpuff”).
[W]hen I walk in my fields I can see, down Berwick way, the littlefluffs of white smoke which tell me of this strange new hundred-legged beast, with coals for food and a thousand men in its belly, for ever crawling over the border.
2011, anonymous, quoted in Katherine Larsen & Lynn Zubernis,Fandom at the Crossroads: Celebration, Shame and Fan/producer Relationships,page 138:
And when something triggers, I can close the window and go readfluff for hours until I calm down.
2017, "Flourish Kink", quoted in Ashley J. Barner,The Case for Fanfiction: Exploring the Pleasures and Practices of a Maligned Craft,page 67:
Fans preferfluff to other types of fic. But angst (dramatic stories where characters have a wide range of emotions, including...angsty ones) comes in close second.
2017, Carrie DiRisio,Brooding YA Hero: Becoming a Main Character (Almost) as Awesome as Me,unnumbered page:
Ah,fluff. My happy place. These fics are dedicated to feel-good feelings, which are the very best type of feelings.
(UK,roleplaying games) A form ofroleplaying which is inconsequential and not related to the plot; often used in the context of (but not limited to) filling time.
(UK,slang,obsolete) Short change deliberately given by a railway clerk, to keep back money for himself.
1900,The Railway Magazine, volume 7, page560:
"What?" cried the counter-man, indignantly. "Been a railwayman all these years, and don't know whatfluff is? Why, 'pon me word, you deserve to get the sack!"
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2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, inBBC Sport[1]:
Either side of Rooney'sfluffed chance, it was a tale of Ukrainian domination as they attacked England down both flanks and showed the greater fluidity of the teams.
(transitive,slang) To arouse (a male pornographic actor) before filming.
2008, Blue Blake,Out of the Blue: Confessions of an Unlikely Porn Star, page187:
To get Lance Bronson hard, Chi Chi, in desperation, called Sharon Kane to come andfluff him on the set. People were always asking me how they could get a job as a fluffer.
The warmup guy — as I now know is common for live audiences in taped television performances — keptfluffing the crowd like they were preschoolers. “Now what are you going to do when we introduce the first comedian?” Wild cheers. “C'mon, that's not good enough! Let's try it again! What are you going to do???”
A genial counter-man told Mr. Manners that, if he played artful, he might even now obtain the position of outside porter; you got no pay there, but you could gain a moderate competency byfluffing.
