See fluff in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"word": "ball of fluff"
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"word": "fluffless"
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"word": "marshmallow fluff"
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{
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"t": "down, fluff"
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{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "fnugg",
"t": "speck, flake"
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"2": "fr",
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"t": "hairy, furry"
},
"expansion": "French velu (“hairy, furry”)",
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{
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"2": "la",
"3": "villūtus",
"t": "having shaggy hair"
},
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{
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"2": "フワフワ",
"3": "",
"4": "lightly, softly",
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},
"expansion": "Japanese フワフワ (fuwafuwa, “lightly, softly”)",
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},
{
"args": {
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"2": "puha",
"3": "",
"4": "soft, fluffy"
},
"expansion": "Hungarian puha (“soft, fluffy”)",
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "ro",
"2": "puf",
"3": "",
"4": "down, peachfuzz, soft hair of some animals, powderpuff"
},
"expansion": "Romanian puf (“down, peachfuzz, soft hair of some animals, powderpuff”)",
"name": "cog"
}
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"etymology_text": "From earlier floow (“woolly substance, down, nap, lint”), also spelt flough, flue, and flew, from West Flemish vluwe,\nof uncertain ultimate origin:\n* Compare Old English flōh (“that which is flown off, fragment, piece”) - see flaw\n* Possibly representing a blend of flue + puff; compare Middle Dutch vloe, or perhaps onomatopoeic; compare dialectal English floose, flooze, fleeze (“particles of wool or cotton; fluff; loose threads or fibres”), Danish fnug (“down, fluff”), Swedish fnugg (“speck, flake”).\n* Alternatively, West Flemish vluwe may derive from French velu (“hairy, furry”), from Latin villūtus (“having shaggy hair”), from villus (“shaggy hair, tuft of hair”).\nFor words of similar sound and meaning in other languages, compare Japanese フワフワ (fuwafuwa, “lightly, softly”), Hungarian puha (“soft, fluffy”), Polish puchaty (“soft, fluffy”),Romanian puf (“down, peachfuzz, soft hair of some animals, powderpuff”).",
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}
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"word": "dust"
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"word": "lint"
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"word": "plumage"
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{
"ref": "1892, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “[The Great Shadow] The Right of the Beacons”, in The Great Shadow and Beyond the City, Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., →OCLC, page 5:",
"text": "[W]hen I walk in my fields I can see, down Berwick way, the little fluffs 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.",
"type": "quote"
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],
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"Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers."
],
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[
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[
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[
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[
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[
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[
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"sense": "anything light, soft or fuzzy",
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"sense": "anything light, soft or fuzzy",
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "puh",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"code": "bg",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
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"sense": "light fur etc",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"neuter"
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "light fur etc",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "fnuller"
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "light fur etc",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "nullermænd"
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"code": "nl",
"english": "instance",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "light fur etc",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
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"sense": "light fur etc",
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"sense": "light fur etc",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "light fur etc",
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "light fur etc",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "light fur etc",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "peluxe"
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ɣinɣli",
"sense": "light fur etc",
"word": "ღინღლი"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "light fur etc",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Flaum"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "light fur etc",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Fluse"
},
{
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "light fur etc",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Fussel"
},
{
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "chnoúdi",
"sense": "light fur etc",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "χνούδι"
},
{
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "light fur etc",
"word": "szösz"
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{
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "light fur etc",
"word": "lanugine"
},
{
"_dis1": "74 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "light fur etc",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fuffa"
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"code": "xal",
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"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "light fur etc",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"sense": "light fur etc",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "vlas",
"sense": "light fur etc",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "влас"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "light fur etc",
"word": "perehunga"
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"sense": "light fur etc",
"word": "kerehunga"
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"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "light fur etc",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hybelkanin"
},
{
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"code": "nn",
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"sense": "light fur etc",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hybelkanin"
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{
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "light fur etc",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "puch"
},
{
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "light fur etc",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "puszek"
},
{
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "light fur etc",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "felpa"
},
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "light fur etc",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cotão"
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "light fur etc",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "puf"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pux",
"sense": "light fur etc",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pušók",
"sense": "light fur etc",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "пушо́к"
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "light fur etc",
"word": "malja"
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{
"_dis1": "74 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "light fur etc",
"word": "paperje"
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{
"_dis1": "74 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "light fur etc",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pelusa"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "light fur etc",
"tags": [
"common-gender",
"neuter"
],
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "light fur etc",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "fjun"
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "light fur etc",
"word": "kabarık"
}
]
},
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{
"text": "That article was basically a bunch of fluff. It didn't say anything substantive.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"Anything inconsequential or superficial."
],
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"links": [
[
"inconsequential",
"inconsequential"
],
[
"superficial",
"superficial"
]
],
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"sense": "anything inconsequential or superficial",
"word": "BS"
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"sense": "anything inconsequential or superficial",
"word": "cruft"
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"sense": "anything inconsequential or superficial",
"word": "hype"
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"sense": "anything inconsequential or superficial",
"word": "all talk"
}
],
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],
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "something inconsequential",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "akkefietje"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 42 1 4 6 1 1 4 28 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "something inconsequential",
"word": "höttö"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 42 1 4 6 1 1 4 28 4",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "something inconsequential",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "broutille"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 42 1 4 6 1 1 4 28 4",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "something inconsequential",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "babiole"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 42 1 4 6 1 1 4 28 4",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "aéras kopanistós",
"sense": "something inconsequential",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "αέρας κοπανιστός"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 42 1 4 6 1 1 4 28 4",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "something inconsequential",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "רעש וצלצולים"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 42 1 4 6 1 1 4 28 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "something inconsequential",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fuffa"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 42 1 4 6 1 1 4 28 4",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "something inconsequential",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "argueiro"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 42 1 4 6 1 1 4 28 4",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "something inconsequential",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ninharia"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 42 1 4 6 1 1 4 28 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "jerundá",
"sense": "something inconsequential",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ерунда́"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 42 1 4 6 1 1 4 28 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "čepuxá",
"sense": "something inconsequential",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "чепуха́"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 42 1 4 6 1 1 4 28 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "čušʹ",
"sense": "something inconsequential",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "чушь"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 42 1 4 6 1 1 4 28 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vzdor",
"sense": "something inconsequential",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "вздор"
}
]
},
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"A lapse or mistake, especially a mistake in an actor's lines."
],
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"links": [
[
"lapse",
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[
"mistake",
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],
[
"actor",
"actor"
],
[
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"line"
]
],
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"(informal) A lapse or mistake, especially a mistake in an actor's lines."
],
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{
"word": "flub"
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{
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"sense": "a lapse",
"word": "blooper"
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{
"_dis1": "3 3 53 6 11 5 5 4 4 7",
"sense": "a lapse",
"word": "blunder"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 3 53 6 11 5 5 4 4 7",
"sense": "a lapse",
"word": "boo-boo"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 3 53 6 11 5 5 4 4 7",
"sense": "a lapse",
"word": "defect"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 3 53 6 11 5 5 4 4 7",
"sense": "a lapse",
"word": "error"
},
{
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"sense": "a lapse",
"word": "fault"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 3 53 6 11 5 5 4 4 7",
"sense": "a lapse",
"word": "faux pas"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 3 53 6 11 5 5 4 4 7",
"sense": "a lapse",
"word": "gaffe"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 3 53 6 11 5 5 4 4 7",
"sense": "a lapse",
"word": "lapse"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 3 53 6 11 5 5 4 4 7",
"sense": "a lapse",
"word": "mistake"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 3 53 6 11 5 5 4 4 7",
"sense": "a lapse",
"word": "slip"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 3 53 6 11 5 5 4 4 7",
"sense": "a lapse",
"word": "stumble"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 3 53 6 11 5 5 4 4 7",
"sense": "a lapse",
"word": "thinko"
}
],
"tags": [
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"informal",
"uncountable"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "1 1 51 7 12 5 5 4 4 7",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "lapse",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "fejl"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 51 7 12 5 5 4 4 7",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "lapse",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "bøf"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 51 7 12 5 5 4 4 7",
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"ref": "2008, Blue Blake, Out of the Blue: Confessions of an Unlikely Porn Star, page 187:",
"text": "To get Lance Bronson hard, Chi Chi, in desperation, called Sharon Kane to come and fluff him on the set. People were always asking me how they could get a job as a fluffer.",
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"ref": "2016, Doug Stanhope, Digging Up Mother:",
"text": "The warmup guy — as I now know is common for live audiences in taped television performances — kept fluffing the crowd like they were preschoolers.\n“Now what are you going to do when we introduce the first comedian?”\nWild cheers.\n“C'mon, that's not good enough! Let's try it again! What are you going to do???”",
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"(transitive) To make something fluffy."
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"To become fluffy, puff up."
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"ref": "1872, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast-Table:",
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"ref": "2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport:",
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"ref": "2008, Blue Blake, Out of the Blue: Confessions of an Unlikely Porn Star, page 187:",
"text": "To get Lance Bronson hard, Chi Chi, in desperation, called Sharon Kane to come and fluff him on the set. People were always asking me how they could get a job as a fluffer.",
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"ref": "2016, Doug Stanhope, Digging Up Mother:",
"text": "The warmup guy — as I now know is common for live audiences in taped television performances — kept fluffing the crowd like they were preschoolers.\n“Now what are you going to do when we introduce the first comedian?”\nWild cheers.\n“C'mon, that's not good enough! Let's try it again! What are you going to do???”",
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"ref": "1900, The Railway Magazine, volume 7, page 559:",
"text": "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 by fluffing.",
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"(UK, slang, obsolete) To deliberately shortchange (a railway customer) and keep the money for oneself."
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"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to make fluffy",
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"sense": "to make fluffy",
"word": "ryste"
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"sense": "to make fluffy",
"word": "opkloppen"
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{
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to make fluffy",
"word": "pluizen"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make fluffy",
"word": "pöyhiä"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make fluffy",
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"sense": "to make fluffy",
"word": "cardar"
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"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to make fluffy",
"word": "espelir"
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"code": "de",
"english": "feathers",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to make fluffy",
"word": "aufplustern"
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"code": "de",
"english": "pillow",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to make fluffy",
"word": "aufschütteln"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to make fluffy",
"word": "afofar"
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"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to make fluffy",
"word": "kabartmak"
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"sense": "to become fluffy",
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"word": "kabarmak"
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to make a mistake in one’s lines",
"word": "kludre med"
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "to make a mistake in one’s lines",
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "to make a mistake in one’s lines",
"word": "bøffe"
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"word": "zich verspreken"
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"sense": "to make a mistake in one’s lines",
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"sense": "to make a mistake in one’s lines",
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"code": "de",
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