pluffyadj.
/ˈplʌfi/, U.S. /ˈpləfi/, Scottish English /ˈplʌfɪ/, Irish English /ˈplʌfi/ Originally Scottish.† 2. Fluffy, downy, furry. Obsolete.
1. Scottish, English regional, and Irish English (northern). Having a puffed-up appearance; puffy; fat, swollen, fleshy. Also (English regional (south-western)): soft, spongy. Cf. pluff adj.
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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [adjective] > fat or plump
fatc893
frimOE
fullOE
overfatOE
greatOE
bald1297
roundc1300
encorsivea1340
fattishc1369
fleshyc1369
fleshlyc1374
repletea1398
largec1405
corsious1430
corpulentc1440
corsyc1440
fulsome1447
portlyc1487
corporate1509
foggy fata1529
corsive1530
foggish?1537
plump1545
fatty1552
fleshful1552
pubble1566
plum1570
pursy1576
well-fleshed1576
gross?1577
fog1582
forfatted1586
gulchy1598
bouksome1600
fat-fed1607
meatified1607
chuff1609
plumpya1616
bloat1638
blowze-like1647
obese1651
jollya1661
bloated1664
chubbed1674
pluffya1689
puffya1689
pussy1688
sappy1694
crummy1718
chubby1722
fodgel1724
well-padded1737
beefy1743
plumpish1753
pudsy1754
rotund1762
portable1770
lusty1777
roundabout1787
well-cushioned1802
plenitudinous1803
stout1804
embonpointc1806
roly-poly1808
adipose1810
roll-about1815
foggy1817
poddy1823
porky1828
hide-blown1834
tubby1835
stoutish1836
tubbish1836
superfatted1841
pottle-bodied1842
pincushiony1851
opulent1882
well-covered1884
well-upholstered1886
butterball1888
endomorphic1888
tisty-tosty1888
pachyntic1890
barrel-bodied1894
overweight1899
pussy-gutted1906
upholstered1924
a1689 W. Cleland Coll. Poems (1697) 105 A pluffie cheek'd red Bearded Mannie.
1828 J. Hogg in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 24 489 A big, dun-faced, pluffy body.
1861 C. J. Lever One of Them xiv. 104 A good-looking fellow—a thought too pluffy, perhaps.
1867 W. F. Rock Jim an' Nell lxxxvii. 25 A panking, pluffy nestledraff.
1873 J. Ogg Willie Waly 164 Her cheeks they are pluffy, her lips they are thin.
1891 R. P. Chope Dial. Hartland 62 Pluffy, spongy. Often applied to bread.
1993 K. C. Phillipps Gloss. Cornish Dial. 46 Pluffy, having an unhealthy fatness in the complexion.
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the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [adjective] > down
mosya1475
mossy1567
callow down1598
tomentous1657
tomentose1698
pluffy1809
fluffy1848
pilar1860
the world > animals > birds > feather > [adjective] > having down
pluffy1853
plumulaceous1879
1809 T. Batchelor Orthoëpical Anal. Dial. Bedfordshire v, in Orthoëpical Anal. Eng. Lang. 142 Sally, the serving, or pluffy part of a bell rope.
1849 A. R. Smith Pottleton Legacy x. 84 A light pluffy moustache.
1853 G. H. Kingsley in Fraser's Mag. Sept. 277/2 We shall have nothing rising before us but barren pairs and pluffy cheepers [i.e. young partridges].
1871 H. B. Stowe Pink & White Tyranny 41 She stood up to have a jaunty little blue jacket, with its pluffy bordering of swan's down, fitted upon her.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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