Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun fluff

3 senses of fluff

Sense 1
fluff -- (any light downy material)
       => material, stuff -- (the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread")

Sense 2
bagatelle, fluff, frippery, frivolity -- (something of little value or significance)
       => triviality, trivia, trifle, small beer -- (something of small importance)

Sense 3
fluff -- (a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines))
       => blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, pratfall, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo -- (an embarrassing mistake)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb fluff

3 senses of fluff

Sense 1
botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up -- (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")
       => fail, go wrong, miscarry -- (be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably")

Sense 2
ruffle, fluff -- (erect or fluff up; "the bird ruffled its feathers")
       => loosen -- (make less dense; "loosen the soil")
          Phrasal Verb-> fluff up#1

Sense 3
tease, fluff -- (ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect)
       => comb, comb out, disentangle -- (smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb; "comb your hair before dinner"; "comb the wool")