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fluff
noun- a woman, especially an attractive woman of no further consequence than her sexual availability UK, 1903
Usually used with “a bit of” or “a piece of”. Combines the sense as “pubic hair”, with an image of “fluff” as something of no consequence. Not kind. - [T]he girl was strictly an Arkansas slick chick, a rife, loose, teenage fluff[.] — Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go, p. 74, 1945
- Until I sat down and looked in the mirror behind the shelves of pie segments, I didn’t notice the fluff sitting off to one side at a table. — Mickey Spillane, My Gun is Quick, p. 6, 1950
- Also, he hadn’t mentioned that he had no job and no prospects and that almost his last dollar had gone into paying the check at The Dancers for a bit of high class fluff[.] — Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, p. 5, 1953
- For another, you can’t for the life of you recall this excited bit of fluff who seems so delighted to see you again. — Dev Collans with Stewart Sterling, I was a House Detective, p. 15, 1954
- What do you think I am? A little bit of fluff? — Alexander Baron, A Bit of Happiness [Six Granada Plays], p. 213, 1959
- Okay, okay, if you guys want to let this fluff get away, it’s up to you. — Donald Goines, Daddy Cool, p. 155, 1974
- Falling for some little ass-shaker, cute little mindless fluff who prob-ably didn’t wear a bra and said “groovy” and “cool” and smoked pot. — Elmore Leonard, 52 Pick-up, p. 41, 1974
- The wire thing Vicksburg Kid, and his fluff, junoesque Rita, finally showed to break up the cat game. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Long White Con, p. 19, 1977
- the female pubic hair UK, 1937
An otherwise obsolete usage that survives in the term BIT OF FLUFF - an effeminate lesbian US
- But now the fluff, maybe she’s been in there three or four days and her habits just coming down on her and she wants to get a little something on. — Bruce Jackson, In the Life, p. 118, 1972
- to a homosexual who practises sado-masochism, a homosexual of simpler tastes US
- — Wayne Dynes, Homolexis, p. 123, 1985
- a mistake in the delivery of theatrical lines, also in broadcasting; a minor mistake when playing music UK, 1891
Originally “lines imperfectly learned”. - — Arnold Shaw, Dictionary of American Pop/Rock, p. 130, 1982
- in the television and film industries, a flubbed line of dialogue UK
- — Oswald Skilbeck, ABC of Film and TV Working Terms, p. 56, 1960
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