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  • verb Present participle of fluff.

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Examples

  • There's steaming, there's fluffing (not that kind of fluffing, this isn't Proj-Rectal Funway, a terrible porn title I just invented), there's kvetching, there's pinning.

    Una LaMarche: Project Runway Finale Part Two Recap 2010

  • There's steaming, there's fluffing (not that kind of fluffing, this isn't Proj-Rectal Funway, a terrible porn title I just invented), there's kvetching, there's pinning.

    Project Runway Finale Part Two Recap 2010

  • He is "fluffing" the rubbish -- mixing in air to help it burn.

    Climate Change: Garbage Gets 2009

  • I like the idea of "fluffing" your dry ingredients in cups, although I have to admit I'm surgically attached to my scales.

    One-bowl chocolate citrus cakes (and a theory) Niki 2006

  • Instead, avoid constant "fluffing" by going for eight-way hand tied construction and cushions with down and wrapped foam for the best comfort and stability.

    Freep.com - RSS 2010

  • The weight of the pins causes them to fall in a smaller mushroom shape and they need "fluffing," for lack of a better expression, in order to bring the pins back to the top of the bouquet and spread them out better.

    Offbeat Bride Uggh 2010

  • Elissa Cullman, in New York, called it "fluffing."

    Have You Had Some Work Done? William L. Hamilton 2011

  • I'm pretty sure Volvo is just interested in selling cars — and fluffing its safety-first image — but the Pedestrian Detection system serves up a strangely tangled case of ethics.

    Pedestrian Detection Dan Neil 2011

  • No fluffing up others 'egos, no niceties that are not sincere, just trying to find the one sincere thing we like in another and to express it should be my goal.

    le mot juste - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Raba, of course, earns his money by fluffing his players' egos and talking up their capabilities but even so his assessment that "in France he is considered the new Zidane" took flattery to an absurd extreme.

    QPR's swashbuckling Adel Taarabt leads ranks of second division Caesars | Rob Bagchi 2011

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