fluffy
part of speech
adjective (fluffy, fluffier, fluffiest)
meaning for a pupil
1) Soft, light and covered with fur, feathers or fine hairs, like a kitten or a chick. tree →
2) Light and full of air (fluffy clouds, fluffy pancakes, fluffy eggs). tree →
3) Not serious or not important (fluffy writing — informal). tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life and stories it describes cute animals, toys, towels, clouds and food. In cooking, beating eggs or cream adds air and makes them fluffy. In science, fluffy materials like wool trap air and keep things warm (good insulators). In writing lessons it's a vivid adjective for describing touch. Phrases: fluffy clouds, fluffy toy (UK: soft toy), light and fluffy.
examples
- The chick was small and fluffy. tree →
- White fluffy clouds floated across the sky. tree →
- Beat the eggs until they are light and fluffy. tree →
- My teddy bear is the fluffiest toy I have. tree →
- Fluffy wool keeps sheep warm in winter. tree →
- These pancakes are so fluffy! tree →
- Fluffy fur traps air and keeps animals warm. tree →
- But in place of the white and the yolk of the egg, a little yellow Chick, fluffy and gay and smiling, escaped from it. tree →
note
Comparative: fluffier, fluffiest (change y to i). Noun: fluff (small bits of soft material). Many pets in stories are named Fluffy.
In the corpora
- An AI that learned what cats look like can be fooled by something fluffy and cat-shaped, such as a slipper.
- Count toes on a hen and you get four, three forward and one back, unless she is a fluffy Silkie with five.
- And yeast has a cousin nobody invited: the fluffy mould on old bread.
- A fluffy chick hops about on the pavement and Molly flings out her arms: "Don't TOUCH it!
- Air pushes back on falling things, and it slows light, fluffy or flat things far more than heavy, compact ones.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «fluffy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.