fluffer
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈflʌfə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈflʌfɚ/
- Rhymes: -ʌfə(ɹ)
Noun
fluffer (plural fluffers)
- Someone or something that fluffs (in various senses).
- 1993, Design, numbers 533-539, page 38:
- Woe betide the camera-shy or the fluffers of lines.
- 2009, Sunny Schwartz, Dreams from the Monster Factory:
- To them, we were the dope-smuggling hippie liberals, the prisoner lovers, the pillow fluffers. To us, they were the sadistic, mean-spirited, right-wing thugs.
- (pornography) One who arouses male pornographic actors before filming.
- Synonym: fluff girl
- 1991, Robert Reeves, Peeping Thomas, →ISBN, page 112:
- "This isn't MGM. I don't do this full-time," she said. "During production, I'm the AD. Occasionally, I fill in as a fluffer."
- (UK) One who is employed to clean the tracks in the tunnels of the London Underground.
- One who promotes or publicizes, especially one who makes something seem better or more important than it is.
- 2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, →ISBN, page 111:
- Thus it was only as I approached the table that I discovered Lafayette hovering behind the chair next to mine, accompanied by Easy Mather, as well as their new best friend and Lafayette's personal fluffer, Jillian Noble.
- 2011, Barbara Ruben, The Principal’S Office: An Inside Story, →ISBN, page 38:
- There is always a “fluffer” who will posture for “good girl, good boy” attention, who will bring up some off-topic item—“good food drive effort” or “great basketball game the other night.”
- 2013, Bettany Hughes, Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore, →ISBN, page 148:
- . In many retellings of the story, Aphrodite acts as Helen's fluffer.
- (Internet slang) A dog.
- 2017 April 23, Jessica Boddy, “Dogs Are Doggos: An Internet Language Built Around Love For The Puppers”, in NPR All Tech Considered[1]:
- DoggoLingo, sometimes referred to as doggo-speak, "seems to be quite lexical, there are a lot of distinctive words that are used," says Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch. "It's cutesier than others, too. Doggo, woofer, pupper, pupperino, fluffer — those have all got an extra suffix on the end to make them cuter."
Derived terms
Translations
arouses a male pornographic actor through fellatio
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Further reading
fluffer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Fluffer (London Underground) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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