fluff – English noun declension

English noun forms of fluff

Noun: fluff
Singularfluff
Pluralfluffs

Sample Sentences

  • [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., →OCLC, page 5:]
  • That article was basically a bunch of fluff. It didn't say anything substantive.
  • That New England-style salami and fluff sandwich sure hit the spot!
  • 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:]
  • "What?" cried the counter-man, indignantly. "Been a railwayman all these years, and don't know what fluff is? Why, 'pon me word, you deserve to get the sack!" [1900, The Railway Magazine, volume 7, page 560:]

Etymology

1. From earlier floow (“woolly substance, down, nap, lint”), also spelt flough, flue, and flew, from West Flemish vluwe,
2. of uncertain ultimate origin:
3. * Compare Old English flōh (“that which is flown off, fragment, piece”); see flaw
4. * Possibly representing a blend of flue + puff; compare Middle Dutch vloe, or perhaps onomatopoeic; compare dialectal English floose, flooze, fleeze (“particles of wool or cotton; fluff; loose threads or fibres”), Danish fnug (“down, fluff”), Swedish fnugg (“speck, flake”).
5. * Alternatively, West Flemish vluwe may derive from French velu (“hairy, furry”), from Latin villūtus (“having shaggy hair”), from villus (“shaggy hair, tuft of hair”).
6. For words of similar sound and meaning in other languages, compare Japanese フワフワ (fuwafuwa, “lightly, softly”), Hungarian puha (“soft, fluffy”), Polish puchaty (“soft, fluffy”), Romanian puf (“down, peachfuzz, soft hair of some animals, powderpuff”). See: English Nouns 'floose', Danish Nouns 'fnug', Latin Nouns 'villūtus', Hungarian Nouns 'puha', Romanian Nouns 'puf'.

Verbs referencing "fluff"

Danish Nouns fnug.