Hair vs. Fluff — What's the Difference?

Hair is a protein filament that grows from follicles found in the dermis. Hair is one of the defining characteristics of mammals.

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

Any of the fine threadlike strands growing from the skin of humans, mammals, and some other animals

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

Hairs collectively, especially those growing on a person's head

Light or superficial entertainment

A very small quantity or extent

Inflated or padded material

Any of the cylindrical, keratinized, often pigmented filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal.

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

A growth of such filaments, as that forming the coat of an animal or covering the scalp of a human.

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

A filamentous projection or bristle similar to a hair, such as a seta of an arthropod or an epidermal process of a plant.

To make fluffy

Fabric made from the hair of certain animals

To ruin or mar by a mistake or blunder

A minute distance or narrow margin

To forget or botch (one's lines).

A precise or exact degree

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

(countable) A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.

To become fluffy.

(uncountable) The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole body.

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

A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.

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

A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated.

Anything inconsequential or superficial.

(countable) Any slender, flexible outgrowth, filament, or fiber growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism.

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

A locking spring or other safety device in the lock of a rifle, etc., capable of being released by a slight pressure on a hair-trigger.

(New England) Marshmallow creme.

(obsolete) Haircloth; a hair shirt.

(LGBT) A passive partner in a lesbian relationship.

(countable) Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.

A fart. en

Complexity; difficulty; the quality of being hairy.

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

(transitive) To remove the hair from.

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.

(intransitive) To grow hair (where there was a bald spot).

(transitive) To make something fluffy.

(transitive) To cause to have or bear hair; to provide with hair

(intransitive) To become fluffy, puff up.

To string the bow for a violin.

(intransitive) To move lightly like fluff.

The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of the body.

To make a mistake in one's lines.

One the above-mentioned filaments, consisting, in vertebrate animals, of a long, tubular part which is free and flexible, and a bulbous root imbedded in the skin.

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

Hair (human or animal) used for various purposes; as, hair for stuffing cushions.

To break wind.

A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.

To arouse (a male pornographic actor) before filming.

An outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated. Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar).

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

A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm.

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

A haircloth.

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

Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.

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

Dense growth of hairs covering the body or parts of it (as on the human head); helps prevent heat loss;

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

A very small distance or space;

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

Filamentous hairlike growth on a plant;

Any light downy material

Any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal;

Something of little value or significance

Cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments

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

A filamentous projection or process on an organism

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