fluffing
present participle offluff
fluff
verb[T]
informaluk/flʌf/us/flʌf/(USalsoflub)mainlyUK
tofailsomething or do itbadly:
I fluffed mydrivingtestthreetimesbefore Ifinallygot it.
All thetimeI wasactingwith him, I neveronceheardhim fluffhislines(= say somethingwrongwhenacting).
Failing and doing badly
- abjectly
- at-risk
- backbencher
- balls(something)up
- be on your beam endsidiom
- blow
- blow(someone/something)up
- bomb
- fall to piecesidiom
- fight a losing battleidiom
- flog
- flog a dead horseidiom
- flop
- founder
- rebound
- rot
- running on emptyidiom
- sclerotic
- smoke
- the rot sets inidiom
Phrasal verb
fluffsomethingup
Examplesoffluffing
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In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Do not let us have anyfluffingon this occasion.
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I would rather see a decision taken not to go ahead than that we go onfluffingdecisions in this matter.
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Can we avoidfluffingthe hard decisions?
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A display of a male involvedfluffingits feathers, holding the bill high and flicking wings while swaying from side to side.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.An aggressive display involvesfluffingup the feathers and holding the bill high.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The male's courtship display involvesfluffingout his breast feathers and running after the female; the species has no known aerial display.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.When featherfluffing, they contract their muscles to raise their feathers to increase the air space next to their skin.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Live episodes are prone to mishaps and actorsfluffingtheir lines.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Similarly, it is also reported that the parent birds brooded by perching on the branch above the nest andfluffingtheir breast feathers out to cover it.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Often, dry chemical and dry powder types are hit on the bottom with a rubber mallet to make sure the powder is free-flowing, which is calledfluffingthe powder.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This is known asfluffing.
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