Definition of "fluff"

fluff

/flʌf/

noun
plural fluffs
1. Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
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  [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.
  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., page 5
2. Anything inconsequential or superficial.
3. (informal) A lapse or mistake, especially a mistake in an actor's lines.
4. (New England) Marshmallow creme.
5. (LGBT) A passive partner in a lesbian relationship.
6. (Australia, New Zealand, euphemistic) A fart.
7. (fandom slang) Fan fiction, or part of a fan fiction, which is sweet and feel-good in tone, usually involving romance.
  Quotations
  And when something triggers, I can close the window and go read fluff for hours until I calm down.
  2011, anonymous, quoted in Katherine Larsen & Lynn Zubernis, Fandom at the Crossroads: Celebration, Shame and Fan/producer Relationships, page 138
  Fans prefer fluff to other types of fic. But angst (dramatic stories where characters have a wide range of emotions, including...angsty ones) comes in close second.
  2017, "Flourish Kink", quoted in Ashley J. Barner, The Case for Fanfiction: Exploring the Pleasures and Practices of a Maligned Craft, page 67
  Ah, fluff. My happy place. These fics are dedicated to feel-good feelings, which are the very best type of feelings.
  2017, Carrie DiRisio, Brooding YA Hero: Becoming a Main Character (Almost) as Awesome as Me, unnumbered page
8. (UK, roleplaying games) A form of roleplaying which is inconsequential and not related to the plot; often used in the context of (but not limited to) filling time.
verb
third-person singular simple present fluffs, present participle fluffing, simple past and past participle fluffed
1. (transitive) To make something fluffy.
2. (intransitive) To become fluffy, puff up.
3. (intransitive) To move lightly like fluff.
  Quotations
  She gave the music-stool a twirl or two and fluffed down on to it like a whirl of soap-suds in a hand-basin.
  1872, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
4. (informal, transitive, intransitive, of an actor or announcer) To make a mistake in one's lines.
5. (informal, transitive) To do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc.
  Quotations
  Either side of Rooney's fluffed chance, it was a tale of Ukrainian domination as they attacked England down both flanks and showed the greater fluidity of the teams.
  2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport‎
6. (intransitive, Australia, euphemistic) To break wind, to fart.
7. (transitive, slang) To arouse (a male pornographic actor) before filming.
  Quotations
  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.
  2008, Blue Blake, Out of the Blue: Confessions of an Unlikely Porn Star, page 187

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