pluff
Pluff is a Scottish dialect word with a softness baked right into its sound.
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Pluff is a Scottish dialect word with a softness baked right into its sound. It can mean a powder puff used by a hairdresser, the action of using one, or a light puff of smoke or dust. There's something wonderfully onomatopoeic about it — 'pluff' sounds exactly like what it describes: a soft, airy little burst of something. It's dialect-specific and old-fashioned, but the kind of word that immediately makes sense the moment you hear it.
The barber gave his neck a quick pluff of talcum powder before unwrapping the cape.
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(Scotland) A hairdresser's powder puff.
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(Scotland) A puff of smoke or dust.
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(Scotland) The act of using a powder puff.
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Pluffy is a Scots dialect adjective meaning puffy, swollen, or blown out — typically describing something inflated with air or a face swollen from illness, a blow, or retained fluid. The word has a slightly comic quality; the '-uffy' sound mimics the soft, round quality it describes. Found in Scots dialect literature and local speech in parts of Scotland. The register is informal and vivid; describing something as pluffy conjures a specific image of soft, unnatural fullness.
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(Scotland) puffy; blown out.