fluff

fluff is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Nap or down; flue; soft, downy feathers. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Nap or down; flue; soft, downy feathers.
2. noun. a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)
3. noun. something of little value or significance

   Synonyms: bagatelle, frippery, frivolity

4. noun. any light downy material
5. verb. ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect

   Synonyms: tease

6. verb. erect or fluff up

   "the bird ruffled its feathers"

   Synonyms: ruffle

7. verb. make a mess of, destroy or ruin

   "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"

   "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"

   Synonyms: blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollocks, botch, bumble, bungle, flub, fumble, mishandle, muff

Synonyms

bagatelle, frippery, frivolity, tease, ruffle, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollocks, botch, bumble, bungle, flub, fumble, mishandle, muff, spoil

Common word forms

fluffs, fluffed, fluffer, fluffing

Words from these letters

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