fluffle

noun
/ˈflʌ.fəl/US

Etymology

Coined as a ghost word on the Wikipedia article Rabbit on 30 July 2007. By surface analysis, fluff + -le.

Definitions

  1. A group of rabbits.

    • Overhead, the late-day sky wore a ruby blush and puffy clouds scurried east like a fluffle of pink rabbits.
    • [T]he camera follows Tate leaping into the arms of Steve McQueen, then floating through a fluffle of bunnies before joining a gyrating throng of revelers on the grotto pool deck
    • Judy (Ginnifer Goodwin): [sobbing; to Nick] I should never have left you. And I do need a herd of therapy animals, and I should have told you that you're the only partner I would ever want because… you're my fluffle.
  2. To fluff up.

    • Graham fluffled his fur and gave Baggly a weak smile.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fluffle. 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