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FLUFFY
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Irregular inflected forms: fluffier , fluffiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Like down or as soft as down
Synonyms:
downlike; downy; flossy; fluffy
Classified under:
Similar:
soft (yielding readily to pressure or weight)
Derivation:
fluff (any light downy material)
fluffiness (a light softness)
Context examples:
A boy’s cap was perched on her head, and her hair, light brown and arranged in a loose and fluffy order that caught the sun, seemed an aureole about the delicate oval of her face.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The mother was at home—a little, fluffy, blue-eyed person, in a tremor of fear and indignation.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in the best of training.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He had time to note the light, fluffy something that hid her queenly head, the tasteful lines of her wrapped figure, the gracefulness of her carriage and of the hand that caught up her skirts; and then she was gone and he was left staring at the two girls of the cannery, at their tawdry attempts at prettiness of dress, their tragic efforts to be clean and trim, the cheap cloth, the cheap ribbons, and the cheap rings on the fingers.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
As we approached, the door flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy pink chiffon at her neck and wrists.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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