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fluffily en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /ˈflʌfɪli/

Etymology

From fluffy + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a fluffy way.
   • She was no typical Edwardian beauty, all pink marshmallow softness and swooning femininity; neither was she fluffily pretty or pert. But she was arresting and there was something indefinable about her that captured his imagination, […] 2005, Barbara Taylor Bradford, A Woman of Substance, →ISBN, page 150:
   • At five or six I had, as other children did, invited little girls for games and goûter in our back garden, only to discover, one balmy afternoon early on, that my playmates had little interest in tag, or in my rows of fluffily attired dolls. 2000, Claire Messud, The Last Life: A Novel, →ISBN:
   • Then she rang the bell, and the nurse brought in a pretty little boy of nearly two, fluffily dressed in white, who was excited at the prospect of his great morning treat - going down in the lift. 2011, Ada Leverson, Love's Shadow, →ISBN, page 5:

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