FLUFFY (fluffier, fluffiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: fluffier    , fluffiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does fluffy mean? 

• FLUFFY (adjective)
  The adjective FLUFFY has 1 sense:

1. like down or as soft as down

  Familiarity information: FLUFFY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLUFFY (adjective)

Comparative: fluffier   
Superlative: fluffiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Like down or as soft as down

Synonyms:

downlike; downy; flossy; fluffy

Similar:

soft (yielding readily to pressure or weight)

Derivation:

fluff (any light downy material)

fluffiness (a light softness)

 Context examples 

Because the material on the lunar surface is fluffy, even a meteoroid that’s a fraction of an inch (5 millimeters) across can penetrate far enough to release a puff of vapor.

(Meteoroid Strikes Eject Precious Water From Moon, NASA)

He carried a cushion, upon which lay a small and fluffy lapdog.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Researchers have long thought that planets are formed from pieces of fluffy dust that settle in a disc around a young star.

(Thousands of Planets Could Be Orbiting around Black Holes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The first who entered was a little Ribston pippin of a man, with ruddy cheeks and fluffy white side-whiskers.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Martin caught an amusing glimpse of himself ironing fluffy white things that women wear.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The fire was burning brightly, and in the grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There’s no mistaking that fluffy ash upon your coat.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth,—a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, perfectly good-natured, but absolutely centered upon his own silly self.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The walls were fluffy and heavy with dust, and in the corners were masses of spider's webs, whereon the dust had gathered till they looked like old tattered rags as the weight had torn them partly down.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She held her left hand in front of her, covered with a red velvet glove, and on the wrist a little brown falcon, very fluffy and bedraggled, which she smoothed and fondled as she walked.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)