Meanings
verbfuff (third-person singular simple present fuffs, present participle fuffing, simple past and past participle fuffed)
present singular third person fuffs · participle present fuffing · participle past fuffed · past fuffed
- ambitransitivedialectalTo puff.
cats fuffing and fighting
1828, Mansie Waunch, The Life of Mansie Wauch, Tailor in Dalkeith
Origin
Imitative. Compare puff.
Full word history & related roots →Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with fuff
throughenoughtoughroughbluffcoughdoughcuffbuffsloughhuffruffsnuffflufftuffhoughcloughgruffscuffscruffguffrebuffchoughdebuff
All rhymes →Cite this entry
APA
fuff. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fuff
MLA
“fuff.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fuff. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fuff,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fuff.
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