| 单词 | fluff |
| 释义 | fluff (once / 1959 pages) 1nv 2vn Fluff is a soft, light puffy or feathery material. Your pet angora rabbit is covered in fluff, and when you blow the down off a dandelion, you can call that fluff too. A department store window designer might use white cotton fluff as snow in his holiday display, and a bored dog might pull the fluff out of every pillow in the house while you're at work. The word fluff is also a verb meaning "to shake or ruffle until something looks fuller." It's also a great way to describe something meaningless or frivolous: "I had high hopes for the newspaper article, but it was just fluff." WORD FAMILYfluff: fluffed, fluffing, fluffs, fluffy+/fluffy: fluffier, fluffiest, fluffily, fluffiness USAGE EXAMPLESBecause I am a Type A, there’s not a lot of room for fluff, typically. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) The grass-fed meat, cooked long and slow with about 16 spices, sits atop a generous mound of rice, each tiny grain perfectly thin and fluffed. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) Her signature item is the best-selling oatmeal marshmallow cookie — soft oatmeal cookies sandwiching a generous dollop of fluff. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) 1 1n any light downy material Hyper material, stuff the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object 2n something of little value or significance Syn|Hyper bagatelle, frippery, frivolity small beer, trifle, trivia, triviality something of small importance 3v erect or fluff up Syn|Hyper ruffle loosen make less dense 4v ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect 2Syn|Hyper tease comb, comb out, disentangle smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb 1v make a mess of, destroy or ruin Syn|Hyper ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, foul up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil fail, go wrong, miscarry be unsuccessful 2n a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines) Hyper bloomer, blooper, blunder, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, pratfall an embarrassing mistake |
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