fluff-up

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Noun[edit]

fluff-up (plural fluff-ups)

  1. A blunder.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 202:
      On top of that he upset the frying-pan with an almighty fluff-up of blazing fat, and exploded into curses.
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