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  • verb Present participle of fuff.

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Examples

  • Finally we got her bolted into the back kitchen, in a corner of which she had established herself all coiled up and fuffing like a young tiger about to spring, or like the Bride of Lammermoor (if you ever heard of that profane book).

    Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

  • It minded me, by all the world, of a wheen cats fuffing and fighting through ither, and whiles something that sounded like "Sugar, sugar, measure the cord," and "dabble dabble."

    The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

  • It minded me, by all the world, of a wheen cats fuffing and fighting through ither, and whiles something that sounded like "Sugar, sugar, measure the cord," and "dabble dabble."

    The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

  • There's no point lathering on make-up and fuffing your hair and trying to keep the whole edifice intact in your car.

    The Guardian World News 2010

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