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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

  1. (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

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fluffles Number=Plur lexicographic

wikipedia: Special:Diff/148126554 · wikipedia: Rabbit

fluffle en · VERB

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

  1. (informal, transitive) To fluff up.
    • Graham fluffled his fur and gave Baggly a weak smile. 2013, Tony Beck, The Quest of Millie Blackbeard, page 69:

Forms

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fluffles Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
fluffled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
fluffled Tense=Past lexicographic
fluffling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

wikipedia: Special:Diff/148126554 · wikipedia: Rabbit