fuff
English edit
Etymology edit
Imitative. Compare puff.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ʌf
Verb edit
fuff (third-person singular simple present fuffs, present participle fuffing, simple past and past participle fuffed)
- (dialect, transitive, intransitive) To puff.
- 1828, Mansie Waunch, The Life of Mansie Wauch, Tailor in Dalkeith:
- cats fuffing and fighting
Noun edit
fuff (plural fuffs)
References edit
- “fuff”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.