fluffle

fluff·le
F4L1U1F4F4L1E1
US, UK/ˈflʌ.fəl/

noun

A group of rabbits.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nounfluffle (plural fluffles)

plural fluffles

  1. collectiveinformalA group of rabbits.

    Overhead, the late-day sky wore a ruby blush and puffy clouds scurried east like a fluffle of pink rabbits.

    2017, D. Wallace Peach, Kari's Reckoning, →ISBN, →OCLC
    2 more examples

    [T]he camera follows Tate leaping into the arms of Steve McQueen, then floating through a fluffle of bunnies before joining a gyrating throng of revelers on the grotto pool deck

    2021, Scott R. Burson, All about the Bass: Searching for Treble in the Midst of a Pounding Culture War, →ISBN, →OCLC

    Judy (Ginnifer Goodwin): [sobbing; to Nick] I should never have left you. And I do need a herd of therapy animals, and I should have told you that you're the only partner I would ever want because… you're my fluffle.

    2025, Jared Bush, directed by Jared Bush and Byron Howard, Zootopia 2 (film), spoken by Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde (Ginnifer Goodwin and Jason Bateman), United States: Walt Disney Studios
verbfluffle (third-person singular simple present fluffles, present participle fluffling, simple past and past participle fluffled)

present singular third person fluffles · participle present fluffling · participle past fluffled · past fluffled

  1. informaltransitiveTo fluff up.

    Graham fluffled his fur and gave Baggly a weak smile.

    2013, Tony Beck, The Quest of Millie Blackbeard, page 69

Origin

Coined as a ghost word on the Wikipedia article Rabbit on 30 July 2007. By surface analysis, fluff + -le.

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Rhymes & wordplay

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Cite this entry
APA

fluffle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fluffle

MLA

“fluffle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fluffle. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fluffle,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fluffle.

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