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fluffer

Noun CEFR B1
ˈflʌfə

Definitions

  1. Someone or something that fluffs (in various senses).
  2. One who arouses male pornographic actors before filming.
  3. One who is employed to clean the tracks in the tunnels of the London Underground.
    UK
  4. One who promotes or publicizes, especially one who makes something seem better or more important than it is.
  5. A fluffy animal.

Equivalents

Españolrecalentador
日本語勃たせ屋
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Examples

“Woe betide the camera-shy or the fluffers of lines.”
“To them, we were the dope-smuggling hippie liberals, the prisoner lovers, the pillow fluffers. To us, they were the sadistic, mean-spirited, right-wing thugs.”
“"This isn't MGM. I don't do this full-time," she said. "During production, I'm the AD. Occasionally, I fill⟳ in as a fluffer."”
“Thus it was only as I approached the table that I discovered Lafayette hovering behind the chair next to mine, accompanied by Easy Mather, as well as their new best friend and Lafayette's personal fluffer, Jillian Noble.”
“There is always a “fluffer” who will posture for “good girl, good boy” attention, who will bring⟳ up some off-topic item—“good food drive⟳ effort” or “great basketball game the other night.””
“. In many retellings of the story, Aphrodite acts as Helen's fluffer.”
“DoggoLingo, sometimes referred to as doggo-speak, "seems to be quite lexical, there are a lot of distinctive words that are used," says Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch. "It's cutesier than others, too. Doggo, woofer, pupper, pupperino, fluffer — those have⟳ all got an extra suffix on the end⟳ to make⟳ them cuter."”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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