"fluffle" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: fluffles [plural]
Etymology: Added to the Wikipedia article Rabbit on 30 July 2007. Head templates: {{en-noun}} fluffle (plural fluffles)
  1. (informal) A group of rabbits. Tags: informal Categories (topical): Wiki
    Sense id: en-fluffle-en-noun-vDBlM0XS Disambiguation of Wiki: 87 13 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 84 16 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 80 20

Verb

Forms: fluffles [present, singular, third-person], fluffling [participle, present], fluffled [participle, past], fluffled [past]
Etymology: Added to the Wikipedia article Rabbit on 30 July 2007. Head templates: {{en-verb}} fluffle (third-person singular simple present fluffles, present participle fluffling, simple past and past participle fluffled)
  1. (transitive, informal) To fluff up. Tags: informal, transitive
    Sense id: en-fluffle-en-verb-3TD3Ts3u

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for fluffle meaning in English (2.6kB)

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