(UK) A kind of shiny padded jacket.
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A puffy ornament.
(slang) A puffer jacket.
(Scotland) A hairdresser's powder puff.
The act of one who puffs.
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.