Fluff vs. Fuzz — What's the Difference?

Light down or fuzz, as on a young bird or on a dandelion or milkweed seed.

A mass or coating of fine, light fibers, hairs, or particles; down

Something having a very light, soft, or frothy consistency or appearance

The police.

Light or superficial entertainment

To cover with fine, light fibers, hairs, or particles.

Inflated or padded material

To make blurred or indistinct

The parts of a junked car that are not metal and cannot be recycled.

To become blurred or obscure.

(Informal) An error, especially in the delivery of lines, as by an actor or announcer.

A frizzy mass of hair or fibre.

To make fluffy

Quality of an image that is unclear; a blurred image.

To ruin or mar by a mistake or blunder

(computing) The random data used in fuzz testing.

To forget or botch (one's lines).

A distorted sound, especially from an electric guitar or other amplified instrument.

Vulgar Slang To cause (a man) to be sufficiently aroused so that he is able to have sexual intercourse, especially in a pornographic film.

A state of befuddlement.

To become fluffy.

The police, or any law enforcement agency.

(Informal) To make an error, especially to forget or botch one's lines.

(transitive) To make fuzzy.

Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.

(intransitive) To become fuzzy.

Anything inconsequential or superficial.

To make drunk.

(informal) A lapse or mistake, especially a mistake in an actor's lines.

(computing) To test a software component by running it on randomly generated input.

(New England) Marshmallow creme.

To fly off in minute particles with a fizzing sound, like water from hot metal.

(LGBT) A passive partner in a lesbian relationship.

To make drunk.

A fart. en

To fly off in minute particles.

(fandom slang) Fan fiction, or part of a fan fiction, which is sweet and feel-good in tone, usually involving romance.

Fine, light particles or fibers; loose, volatile matter.

A form of roleplaying which is inconsequential and not related to the plot; often used in the context of (but not limited to) filling time.

Filamentous hairlike growth on a plant;

(transitive) To make something fluffy.

Uncomplimentary terms for a policeman

(intransitive) To become fluffy, puff up.

A hazy or indistinct representation;

(intransitive) To move lightly like fluff.

The first beard of an adolescent boy

To make a mistake in one's lines.

To do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc.

To break wind.

To arouse (a male pornographic actor) before filming.

Nap or down; flue[2]; soft, downy feathers.

Anything light and downy, whose volume consists mostly of air, such as cotton or down.

Something light and inconsequential; something not to be taken seriously; - used commonly of literary or dramatic productions, and sometimes of people.

A mistake, especially in the recitation of lines in a drama.

To make or become fluffy; to move lightly like fluff.

To make a mistake in the performance of; - used mostly of lines in a drama; as, he fluffed the last line of the act.

Any light downy material

Something of little value or significance

A blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)

Make a mess of, destroy or ruin;

Erect or fluff up;

Ruffle (one's hair) by combing towards the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect