"fluff up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-fluff up.ogg [Australia] Forms: fluffs up [present, singular, third-person], fluffing up [participle, present], fluffed up [participle, past], fluffed up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} fluff up (third-person singular simple present fluffs up, present participle fluffing up, simple past and past participle fluffed up)
  1. (transitive) To plump up. Tags: transitive Translations (plump up): aufschütteln (German), αναφουφουλιάζω (anafoufouliázo) (Greek), распушить (raspušitʹ) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-fluff_up-en-verb-F4KriFPA Disambiguation of 'plump up': 94 6
  2. (slang) To make a gaffe or blunder; to fuck up. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-fluff_up-en-verb-SZhUfqNB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 77 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 41 59

Inflected forms

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