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duckfluff

noun

Etymology

From duck + fluff.

  1. derived from villūtus — “having shaggy hair”
  2. derived from velu — “hairy, furry”
  3. derived from vluwe
  4. compounded as duckfluff — “duck + fluff”

Definitions

  1. Down from a duck.

    • He wore blue linen shorts that buttoned to his shirt, his hair was snow white and stuck to his head like duckfluff; he was a year my senior but I towered over him.
    • With a groan, Tristan rolled out of bed, his soft blond hair sticking up like duckfluff.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for duckfluff. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA