[syn: tease, fluff]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Fluff \Fluff\, n. [Cf. 2d Flue. [root]84.]
1. Nap or down; flue[2]; soft, downy feathers.
[1913 Webster]
2. Hence: Anything light and downy, whose volume consists
mostly of air, such as cotton or down.
[PJC]
3. Something light and inconsequential; something not to be
taken seriously; -- used commonly of literary or dramatic
productions, and sometimes of people.
[PJC]
4. A mistake, especially in the recitation of lines in a
drama.
[PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Fluff \Fluff\, v. t. & i.
To make or become fluffy; to move lightly like fluff.
--Holmes.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Fluff \Fluff\, v. t.
To make a mistake in the performance of; -- used mostly of
lines in a drama; as, he fluffed the last line of the act.
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
fluff
n 1: any light downy material
2: something of little value or significance [syn: bagatelle,
fluff, frippery, frivolity]
3: a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)
v 1: make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and
we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult
passage in the second movement" [syn: botch, bodge,
bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub,
screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle,
fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up,
bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up,
fuck up]
2: erect or fluff up; "the bird ruffled its feathers" [syn:
ruffle, fluff]
3: ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp,
for a full effect [syn: tease, fluff]