fluffle en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈflʌ.fəl/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
Coined as a ghost word on the Wikipedia article Rabbit on 30 July 2007. By surface analysis, fluff + -le.
Meanings
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(collective, informal) A group of rabbits.
Overhead, the late-day sky wore a ruby blush and puffy clouds scurried east like a fluffle of pink rabbits.
2017, D. Wallace Peach, Kari's Reckoning, →ISBN, →OCLC:Judy (Ginnifer Goodwin): [sobbing; to Nick] I should never have left you. And I do need a herd of therapy animals, and I should have told you that you're the only partner I would ever want because… you're my fluffle.
2025, Jared Bush, directed by Jared Bush and Byron Howard, Zootopia 2 (film), spoken by Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde (Ginnifer Goodwin and Jason Bateman), United States: Walt Disney Studios:[T]he camera follows Tate leaping into the arms of Steve McQueen, then floating through a fluffle of bunnies before joining a gyrating throng of revelers on the grotto pool deck
2021, Scott R. Burson, All about the Bass: Searching for Treble in the Midst of a Pounding Culture War, →ISBN, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| fluffles | Number=Plur | lexicographic |