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[ noun ] any light downy material

Used in print

(Jay Williams, The Forger....)

We hold safe little jobs illustrating tooth-paste ads or the salacious incidents in trivial novels , and most_of our easel painting is nothing but picking the fluff out of the navel so it can be contemplated in greater purity .

Related terms

material

2
[ noun ] something of little value or significance

Related terms

whatchamacallit trivia

3
[ verb ] ruffle by combing towards the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect; of hair

Synonyms

tease

Related terms

comb comb-out

4
[ verb ] erect or fluff up

Synonyms

ruffle

Examples

"the bird ruffled its feathers"

Related terms

loosen fluff_up

5
[ verb ] make a mess of, destroy or ruin

Examples

"I botched the dinner and we had to eat out" "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"

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[ noun ] a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)

Related terms

blunder botch

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