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fluffery

noun

Etymology

From fluff + -ery.

  1. derived from villūtus — “having shaggy hair”
  2. derived from velu — “hairy, furry”
  3. derived from vluwe
  4. suffixed as fluffery — “fluff + ery”

Definitions

  1. Anything lightweight and overly ornamental or superfluous

    Anything lightweight and overly ornamental or superfluous; fluff; froth.

    • The Valley, as it has always been known in Virginia, became the site of a relatively democratic society based on a small-farm economy, with few slaves and little aristocratic fluffery.
    • The room is small, the walls smothered with fluffy pink and blue towels, the floor ankle deep with more pink fluffery. The air is perfumed, the sink is spotless, bathtub shiny. The toilet paper is pale baby blue.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fluffery. 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