Fluffer
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Someone or something that fluffs (in various senses).
"Woe betide the camera-shy or the fluffers of lines."
- 2 One who arouses male pornographic actors before filming.
""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.""
- 3 One who is employed to clean the tracks in the tunnels of the London Underground. UK
- 4 One who promotes or publicizes, especially one who makes something seem better or more important than it is.
"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."
- 5 A fluffy animal. Internet
"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.""
Synonyms
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More examples"Woe betide the camera-shy or the fluffers of lines."
Etymology
From fluff + -er.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.