Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
[W]hen I walk in my fields I can see, down Berwick way, the little fluffs of white smoke which tell me of this strange new hundred-legged beast, with coals for food and a thousand men in its belly, for ever crawling over the border.
From earlier floow (“woolly substance, down, nap, lint”), also spelt flough, flue, and flew, from West Flemish vluwe, of uncertain ultimate origin: * Compare Old English flōh (“that which is flown off...
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To become fluffy, puff up.
To move lightly like fluff.
She gave the music-stool a twirl or two and fluffed down on to it like a whirl of soap-suds in a hand-basin.