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fluff

[fluhf]
–noun
1. light, downy particles, as of cotton.
2. a soft, light, downy mass: a fluff of summer clouds.
3. something of no consequence: The book is pure fluff, but fun to read.
4. an error or blunder, esp. an actor's memory lapse in the delivery of lines.
–verb (used with object)
5. to make into fluff; shake or puff out (feathers, hair, etc.) into a fluffy mass (often fol. by up): to fluff up the sofa pillows.
6. to make a mistake in: The leading man fluffed his lines.
–verb (used without object)
7. to become fluffy; move, float, or settle down like fluff.
8. to make a mistake, esp. in the delivery of lines by a performer; blunder.

Origin:
1780–90; perh. b. flue 2 and puff


fluffer, noun
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Main Entry:  fluffer
Part of Speech:  n
Definition:  an off-stage person hired to keep a male porn star in a state of erection
Usage:  slang
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Slang Dictionary
fluff [fləf]

  1. n.
    nonsense; irrelevant stuff; hype. : Cut out the fluff and talk straight.
  2. tv. & in.
    to make an error; to do something incorrectly. : Todd fluffs his lines in the same place every night.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

fluff  (n.)
1790, variant of floow "wooly substance, down, nap" (1589), perhaps from Flem. vluwe, from Fr. velu "shaggy, hairy," from L. vellus "fleece," or L. villus "tuft of hair" (see velvet). OED suggests fluff as "an onomatopoeic modification" of floow, "imitating the action of puffing away some light substance." The verb meaning "to shake into a soft mass" is first attested 1885. Slang bit of fluff "young woman" is from 1903.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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