"fluffle" meaning in English

See fluffle in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: fluffles [plural]
Etymology: Added to the Wikipedia article Rabbit on 30 July 2007. Head templates: {{en-noun}} fluffle (plural fluffles)
  1. (informal, collective) A group of rabbits. Tags: collective, informal
    Sense id: en-fluffle-en-noun-vDBlM0XS

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 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English ghost words, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Wiki Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 69 Disambiguation of English ghost words: 19 81 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 21 79 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 15 85 Disambiguation of Wiki: 19 81

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_text": "Added to the Wikipedia article Rabbit on 30 July 2007.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fluffles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fluffle (plural fluffles)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              83,
              90
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2017, D. Wallace Peach, Kari's Reckoning:",
          "text": "Overhead, the late-day sky wore a ruby blush and puffy clouds scurried east like a fluffle of pink rabbits.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              88,
              95
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2021, Scott R. Burson, All about the Bass:",
          "text": "the camera follows Tate leaping into the arms of Steve McQueen, then floating through a fluffle of bunnies before joining a gyrating throng of revelers on the grotto pool deck",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A group of rabbits."
      ],
      "id": "en-fluffle-en-noun-vDBlM0XS",
      "links": [
        [
          "rabbit",
          "rabbit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, collective) A group of rabbits."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "collective",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Rabbit"
  ],
  "word": "fluffle"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Added to the Wikipedia article Rabbit on 30 July 2007.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fluffles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fluffling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fluffled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fluffled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fluffle (third-person singular simple present fluffles, present participle fluffling, simple past and past participle fluffled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "31 69",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "19 81",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English ghost words",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 79",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "15 85",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "19 81",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Wiki",
          "orig": "en:Wiki",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              7,
              15
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2013, Tony Beck, The Quest of Millie Blackbeard, page 69:",
          "text": "Graham fluffled his fur and gave Baggly a weak smile.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fluff up."
      ],
      "id": "en-fluffle-en-verb-3TD3Ts3u",
      "links": [
        [
          "fluff up",
          "fluff up"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, informal) To fluff up."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Rabbit"
  ],
  "word": "fluffle"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English ghost words",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Wiki"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Added to the Wikipedia article Rabbit on 30 July 2007.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fluffles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fluffle (plural fluffles)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English collective nouns",
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              83,
              90
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2017, D. Wallace Peach, Kari's Reckoning:",
          "text": "Overhead, the late-day sky wore a ruby blush and puffy clouds scurried east like a fluffle of pink rabbits.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              88,
              95
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2021, Scott R. Burson, All about the Bass:",
          "text": "the camera follows Tate leaping into the arms of Steve McQueen, then floating through a fluffle of bunnies before joining a gyrating throng of revelers on the grotto pool deck",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A group of rabbits."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rabbit",
          "rabbit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, collective) A group of rabbits."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "collective",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Rabbit"
  ],
  "word": "fluffle"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English ghost words",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Wiki"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Added to the Wikipedia article Rabbit on 30 July 2007.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fluffles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fluffling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fluffled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fluffled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fluffle (third-person singular simple present fluffles, present participle fluffling, simple past and past participle fluffled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              7,
              15
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2013, Tony Beck, The Quest of Millie Blackbeard, page 69:",
          "text": "Graham fluffled his fur and gave Baggly a weak smile.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fluff up."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fluff up",
          "fluff up"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, informal) To fluff up."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Rabbit"
  ],
  "word": "fluffle"
}

Download raw JSONL data for fluffle meaning in English (2.6kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (9c82c1c and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.