fluffとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /flʌf/
• 韻: -ʌf

名詞

fluff (複数形 fluffs)

1. Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
   • 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 1000339207, page 5:

     [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.

2. Anything inconsequential or superficial.

   That article was basically a bunch of fluff. It didn't say anything substantive.

3. (informal) A lapse or mistake, especially a mistake in an actor's lines.

   Synonym: flub

4. (New England) Marshmallow creme.

   That New England-style salami and fluff sandwich sure hit the spot!

5. (LGBT) A passive partner in a lesbian relationship.
6. (Australia, euphemistic) A fart. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
7. (fandom slang) Fan fiction, or part of a fan fiction, which is sweet and feel-good in tone, usually involving romance.
   • 2011, anonymous, quoted in Katherine Larsen & Lynn Zubernis, Fandom at the Crossroads: Celebration, Shame and Fan/producer Relationships, page 138:

     And when something triggers, I can close the window and go read fluff for hours until I calm down.

   • 2017, "Flourish Kink", quoted in Ashley J. Barner, The Case for Fanfiction: Exploring the Pleasures and Practices of a Maligned Craft, page 67:

     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, Carrie DiRisio, Brooding YA Hero: Becoming a Main Character (Almost) as Awesome as Me, unnumbered page:

     Ah, fluff. My happy place. These fics are dedicated to feel-good feelings, which are the very best type of feelings.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fluff.
8. (UK, role-playing games) A form of roleplaying which is inconsequential and not related to the plot; often used in the context of (but not limited to) filling time.

同意語

• (anything light, soft または fuzzy): fuzz, oose (Scotland), puff
• (anything inconsequential または superficial): BS, cruft, hype, all talk
• (a lapse): blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, error, fault, faux pas, gaffe, lapse, mistake, slip, stumble, thinko
• (passive in a lesbian relationship): ruffle
• (sweet または feel-good fanfiction): schmoop
• See also Thesaurus:error

派生語

• bit of fluff
• bumfluff
• fluffball
• fluffhead
• fluffiness
• fluffless
• flufflike
• fluffy
• marshmallow fluff

参考

• dust
• lint
• plumage

動詞

fluff (三人称単数 現在形 fluffs, 現在分詞 fluffing, 過去形および過去分詞形 fluffed)

1. (transitive) To make something fluffy.
   • 2013, Tony Beck, The Quest of Millie Blackbeard, page 69:

     Graham fluffled his fur and gave Baggly a weak smile. “We did need to be change'n ourselves aunty Baggly. We did be make'n ourselves to be smaller and more cuteful, and of course, we did be need'n to change our throats so that we could be learn'n to be speak'n with our mouths. […] ”

   The cat fluffed its tail.

2. (intransitive) To become fluffy, puff up.
3. (intransitive) To move lightly like fluff.
   • 1872, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast-Table:

     She gave the music-stool a twirl or two and fluffed down on to it like a whirl of soap-suds in a hand-basin.

4. (informal, transitive, intransitive, of an actor または announcer) To make a mistake in one's lines.

   Synonym: flub

5. (informal, transitive) To do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc.

   Synonym: flub

   • 2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Either side of Rooney's fluffed chance, it was a tale of Ukrainian domination as they attacked England down both flanks and showed the greater fluidity of the teams.

6. (intransitive, Australia, euphemistic) To fart.
7. (transitive, slang) To arouse (a male pornographic actor) before filming.
   • 2008, Blue Blake, Out of the Blue: Confessions of an Unlikely Porn Star (page 187)

     To get Lance Bronson hard, Chi Chi, in desperation, called Sharon Kane to come and fluff him on the set. People were always asking me how they could get a job as a fluffer.

派生語

• fluff-dry
• fluffer
• fluff girl
• fluff up
• mattress fluffer

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