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.
2. Anything inconsequential or superficial.

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

3. Lapse, especially a mistake in an actor’s lines.
4. (New England) Marshmallow creme.
5. (LGBT) A passive partner in a lesbian relationship.
6. (Australia, euphemistic) A fart.

(Can we add an example for this sense?)

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
• See also Thesaurus:error

派生語

• bumfluff
• fluffy

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.

   The cat fluffed its tail.

2. (intransitive) To become fluffy, puff up.
3. (intransitive) To move lightly like fluff.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Holmes to this entry?)

4. (transitive, intransitive, of an actor または announcer) To make a mistake in one’s lines.
5. (transitive) To do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc.
   • 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

• fluffer
• fluff up
• fluff girl

Further reading

• “fluff” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.