Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to floof
Participle: floofed
Gerund: floofing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | floof |
| you | floof |
| he;she;it | floofs |
| we | floof |
| you | floof |
| they | floof |
Perfect
| I | have floofed |
| you | have floofed |
| he;she;it | has floofed |
| we | have floofed |
| you | have floofed |
| they | have floofed |
Past
| I | floofed |
| you | floofed |
| he;she;it | floofed |
| we | floofed |
| you | floofed |
| they | floofed |
Pluperfect
| I | had floofed |
| you | had floofed |
| he;she;it | had floofed |
| we | had floofed |
| you | had floofed |
| they | had floofed |
Future
| I | will floof |
| you | will floof |
| he;she;it | will floof |
| we | will floof |
| you | will floof |
| they | will floof |
Future Perfect
| I | will have floofed |
| you | will have floofed |
| he;she;it | will have floofed |
| we | will have floofed |
| you | will have floofed |
| they | will have floofed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | floof |
| you | floof |
| he;she;it | floof |
| we | floof |
| you | floof |
| they | floof |
Perfect
| I | have floofed |
| you | have floofed |
| he;she;it | have floofed |
| we | have floofed |
| you | have floofed |
| they | have floofed |
Imperfect
| I | floofed |
| you | floofed |
| he;she;it | floofed |
| we | floofed |
| you | floofed |
| they | floofed |
Pluperfect
| I | had floofed |
| you | had floofed |
| he;she;it | had floofed |
| we | had floofed |
| you | had floofed |
| they | had floofed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would floof |
| you | would floof |
| he;she;it | would floof |
| we | would floof |
| you | would floof |
| they | would floof |
Perfect
| I | would have floofed |
| you | would have floofed |
| he;she;it | would have floofed |
| we | would have floofed |
| you | would have floofed |
| they | would have floofed |
Imperative
| you | floof |
| we | Let's floof |
| you | floof |
Verbs conjugated like 'floof'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'floof'
flood,
floor,
loof,
blood,
bloom,
bloop,
boof,
choof,
cloom,
feoff,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Possibly a deliberate mispronunciation of fluff, a back-formation from floofy, or a blend of fluff + poof (compare the etymology of floofy).
Sample Sentences
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Then she floofs out her blonde curls artlessly and opens her mouth wide, checking her teeth for spinach. [2002, India Knight, Don't You Want Me?, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN:]
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From a dim corner, Stella [a bird] stirred: a floofing of feathers, a dry click, click of talons across the perch. [2010, Susan Fletcher, “Things that Go Thump”, in Ancient, Strange, and Lovely (The Dragon Chronicles), New York, N.Y.: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 9:]
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Josette is pegging out the laundry in her garden. […] She takes a pair of trousers and floofs them so that they uncrumple. A pair of frilly knickers fly out from the leg and I laugh. [2013, Claire King, chapter 19, in The Night Rainbow, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 217:]
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She'd floofed her hair back up with military-grade hairspray, and then was painting over her nail art with sparkly silver when Annie found her and dragged her back to the dance floor […] [2015, Lindsey J. Palmer, chapter 9, in If We Lived Here, New York, N.Y.: Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 75:]
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She floofed down between Max and me on the Chickly Shabby sofa. [2012, Brian D'Amato, The Sacrifice Game (The Sacrifice Game Trilogy; 2), New York, N.Y.: Dutton, →ISBN:]
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Holly flung herself on an upholstered sofa, her cute retro dress floofing around her. [2014, Amylynn Bright, chapter 12, in Finish what We Started, Don Mills, Ont.: Carina Press, →ISBN:]
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I peeked over my makeup mirror to watch Stefano clamp a pasta bowl between two fingers and pet it with the yellow sponge. Suds floofed onto the counter and his shirt, the wall and the floor. [2015, Kathleen Cremonesi, “Pressure”, in Love in the Elephant Tent: How Running Away with the Circus Brought Me Home, Toronto, Ont.: ECW Press, →ISBN:]