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Synonyms for fluff
flʌf
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Princeton's WordNet
fluff(noun)
any light downy material
bagatelle, fluff, frippery, frivolity(noun)
something of little value or significance
Synonyms:
frivolousness, bar billiards, frivolity, buffoonery, bagatelle, harlequinade, frippery, japery, prank, clowningfluff(verb)
a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)
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(verb)
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"
Synonyms:
vitiate, stammer, mud, plunder, impair, drift, pamper, hot up, flub, suck, featherbed, mar, gasconade, squander, ruffle up, boast, heat up, vaunt, itch, screw up, ball up, mire, frustrate, corrupt, bluster, gas, deflower, spoil, muck up, rape, tease, grope, violate, bollocks, mollycoddle, bungle, bollocks up, fumble, muck, shove along, shove off, foil, stutter, blow, bollix, rumple, coddle, cosset, shoot a line, scotch, go bad, ruffle, baby, cross, louse up, fellate, float, botch up, bodge, mess up, brag, bobble, baffle, muff, be adrift, mess, mishandle, tout, foul up, swash, blunder, indulge, despoil, waste, go down on, stumble, blow out, bollix up, botch, thwart, bilk, bumble, falter, cocker, burn out, misconduct, mismanageruffle, fluff(verb)
erect or fluff up
"the bird ruffled its feathers"
Synonyms:
botch, prance, flick, shuffle, bungle, tease, tittup, muck up, mishandle, bumble, botch up, ruffle up, blow, ripple, screw up, cock, rumple, sashay, fumble, flub, ball up, ruffle, bollocks, strut, pleat, riffle, mess up, cockle, louse up, bollocks up, bollix, muff, swagger, undulate, foul up, mix, bobble, bollix up, spoil, bodgetease, fluff(verb)
ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect
Synonyms:
botch, badger, bungle, tease, muck up, mishandle, bumble, botch up, tantalise, blow, screw up, rally, loosen, bug, fumble, flub, ball up, ruffle, bollocks, ride, bait, card, razz, spoil, muff, tantalize, tease apart, cod, louse up, mess up, taunt, beleaguer, foul up, rag, bobble, pester, bollix up, bollix, twit, bodge, bollocks up
Wiktionary
fluff(noun)
To make something fluffy.
The cat fluffed its tail.
fluff(noun)
To become fluffy.
That article was basically a bunch of fluff. It didn't say anything substantive.
fluff(noun)
To make a mistake in one’s lines
fluff(noun)
To do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc.
fluff(noun)
fluff(noun)
Synonyms:
thinko, slip, faux pas, stumble, gaffe, lapse, fault, blooper, error, defect, mistake, blunder, boo-boo
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "fluff":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#414 | card | |
#669 | baby | |
#772 | mar | |
#899 | error | |
#1083 | cross | |
#1119 | gas | |
#1605 | rape | |
#1980 | waste | |
#2043 | bug | |
#2152 | cock | |
#2456 | mix | |
#2540 | blow | |
#2968 | ride | |
#3373 | suck | |
#5042 | bs | |
#5045 | fault | |
#5110 | slip | |
#5805 | mistake | |
#5985 | cod | |
#6609 | rally | |
#6803 | float | |
#8009 | mess | |
#9024 | mud | |
#10327 | defect | |
#10816 | foil | |
#11779 | drift | |
#11969 | corrupt | |
#12304 | shuffle | |
#12746 | violate | |
#13488 | hype | |
#13704 | bait | |
#15297 | misconduct | |
#15810 | rag | |
#16228 | badger | |
#16465 | flick | |
#17024 | scotch | |
#17420 | tease | |
#17634 | tout | |
#18108 | puff | |
#20396 | indulge | |
#21097 | lapse | |
#21436 | spoil | |
#22492 | muck | |
#22870 | strut | |
#23203 | boast | |
#23676 | ripple | |
#24734 | stumble | |
#25560 | impair | |
#26507 | itch | |
#26944 | bobble | |
#27618 | cocker | |
#28828 | bumble | |
#29414 | prank | |
#29528 | loosen | |
#29630 | fluff | |
#30892 | fumble | |
#31815 | pamper | |
#33879 | brag | |
#33911 | muff | |
#34901 | ruffle | |
#35137 | fuzz | |
#36264 | thwart | |
#37254 | plunder | |
#41205 | baffle | |
#45358 | blunder | |
#49040 | frustrate | |
#50234 | razz | |
#53567 | mire | |
#53610 | bollocks | |
#53644 | taunt | |
#56544 | falter | |
#56855 | pleat | |
#57008 | swash | |
#61267 | stutter | |
#62512 | twit | |
#63134 | bungle | |
#64843 | swagger | |
#70369 | riffle | |
#76139 | grope | |
#77180 | clowning | |
#80961 | squander | |
#84625 | gaffe | |
#87911 | cockle | |
#88167 | bluster | |
#90108 | pester | |
#90634 | cruft | |
#93078 | blooper | |
#94857 | frivolity | |
#99054 | featherbed | |
#104177 | botch | |
#106648 | stammer | |
#109264 | gasconade | |
#111042 | bagatelle | |
#111189 | prance | |
#120061 | bilk | |
#121624 | vitiate | |
#148246 | tantalize | |
#162842 | coddle | |
#169267 | buffoonery | |
#198456 | sashay | |
#204476 | undulate | |
#214393 | rumple | |
#220019 | flub | |
#228192 | despoil | |
#231784 | bodge | |
#281038 | vaunt | |
#284974 | deflower | |
#285630 | thinko | |
#309165 | mismanage | |
#315643 | mishandle | |
#321242 | tantalise |
How to use fluff in a sentence?
Their stylistic tics are nonsensical fluff: 'Like ... Like ... Like ...,' sentences punctuated with 'N Stuff,' mindless clichés such as 'Omigod!' and 'Awesome.' In their writing, they aren't much better. Let's be clear about every standardized test score and every survey of teachers and employers: the writing of students and younger workers is a mess.
It was fluff, but it made me think, `How could that translate to our residents with memory loss?' we're looking to see if we can set a positive tone for the day.
It has to be deeds, not words, what it’s easy to do is have some fluff - but what we want is hard numbers.
These stories offer comfort and escapism, it's something queer audiences haven't had a lot of. There has got to be room for fluff, for lack of a better term, and seeing queer representation in all genres, even where it hasn't been seen before.
But there is no alternative. What he talks about is basically fluff, there is no alternative. What is the alternative? To have us alone? Have the international community walk away? We have negotiated this in good faith. It hasn't taken months. It's taken years. Years. This is the diplomatic breakthrough that will go down in history as one of the biggest diplomatic moves in the history of the world.
Translations for fluff
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- زغبArabic
- пух, мъхBulgarian
- fnugDanish
- Flaum, Fluse, plustern, Fussel, aufplustern, verpatzen, versprechenGerman
- χνούδιGreek
- lanugoEsperanto
- pelusaSpanish
- کرکPersian
- sotkeutua, höttö, erehdys, möyhiä, möyhentää, pörhistyä, sekaantua, moka, pöyhiä, pörhentää, pöyhistyäFinnish
- duvetFrench
- רעש וצלצוליםHebrew
- szöszHungarian
- bulu halusIndonesian
- lanugine, fuffaItalian
- ღინღლიGeorgian
- pūka, dūnasLatvian
- perehungaMāori
- akkefietje, verspreking, opkloppen, [[zich]] [[verspreken]], pluis, blooper, pluizenDutch
- fluffNorwegian
- scamăRomanian
- пушок, чушь, вздор, просчёт, оплошность, ерунда, чепуха, промах, пухRussian
- paperje, maljaSerbo-Croatian
- kabartmak, kabarık, kabarmakTurkish
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