"fluff" in the noun sense

1. fluff

any light downy material

2. bagatelle, fluff, frippery, frivolity

something of little value or significance

3. fluff

a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)

"fluff" in the verb sense

1. botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up

make a mess of, destroy or ruin

"I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"

"the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"

2. ruffle, fluff

erect or fluff up

"the bird ruffled its feathers"

3. tease, fluff

ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect

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