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bum-fluffed en · ADJ

Etymology

From bum-fluff + -ed.

Meanings

1. Covered in bum-fluff; fuzzy rather than growing hair or a beard.
   • His emaciated bum-fluffed face is covered in blackheads and his hair looks as if someone saved him from drowning in a barrel by pulling him up by his locks. 2014, Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove, →ISBN:
   • Rupert hit puberty alarmingly early, and had he not been caught with cereal and shed the pounds he would have resembled a young, bum-fluffed version of George Michael, which is never a good look. 2013, Ollie Locke, Laid in Chelsea: My Life Uncovered, →ISBN:
   • More like twenty – bum-fluffed rather than bearded, but beyond the point at which the mouth seems too big for the head; the nose too small for the face. 2011, Mick Herron, Reconstruction, →ISBN:

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