fluff one's feathers
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Verb[edit]
fluff one's feathers (third-person singular simple present fluffs one's feathers, present participle fluffing one's feathers, simple past and past participle fluffed one's feathers)
- To show off.
- 2014, Liz Tyner, A Captain and a Rogue, page 72:
- He knew, though, that the man wasn't thinking of violence. Instead, he was fluffing his feathers for Thessa and doing a little blustering dance.