floofy

Blend of fluffy +‎ poofy

floofy (comparative floofier, superlative floofiest)

1. (informal) Feathery; puffy, light, airy or windswept.
   • 2010, Kate Messner, Sugar and Ice, Walker Books for Young Readers, →ISBN:

     “Make it floofier,” Meghan told Stevie, who was spraying Gotta-Be-Glued hairspray onto her bangs.

   • 2012, C.E. Murphy, Walking Dead, →ISBN:

     Look, I get it. I'm like one of those nice ladies in a long skirt with wildflowers in her floofy hair who prattles about magic and Mother Earth and spiritual guides and who are tolerated because they seem harmless enough in their obviously crazy way. Except I don't own any skirts and my hair's only floofy right when I get up.

   • 2012, Joy Bossi, Karen Bastow, The Incredible Edible Landscape, →ISBN, page 15:

     A well-prepared bed can supply asparagus for years and years. Then comes the bonus— in the fall, the wispy stems called “fern” become a blaze of yellow, floofy, feathery stems.

   • 2012, Jennifer Greene, Rock Solid, →ISBN:

     She'd always been stuck with naturally curly hair, but now the loose springy curls were doing whatever they wanted.To her, it was starting to look hopelessly floofy.

   • 2014, Lissa Lucas, Traci Torres, My Pet Chicken Handbook, →ISBN:

     Do you love birds with floofy, profuse feathering?

   • 2020, Marna Gilligan, Cat Knits: 16 Pawsome Knitting Patterns for Yarn and Cat Lovers, David and Charles, →ISBN:

     The more wrapping you can do here the floofier your pompom will be.

   • 2021, Kathryn Ormsbee, Candidly Cline, Harper, →ISBN:

     The first song’s album artwork pops up on my phone, showing a blond woman with the floofiest bangs and bouffant you ever did see.

   • 2021, Rachel Wenitsky, David Sidorov, Good Dogs with Bad Haircuts, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 61:

     She was so grateful to have a best friend who really understood her, beneath all the floofy fur. And speaking of that floofy fur—Lulu knew it was a bit floofier than usual. She needed a trim.

2. (colloquial) Elaborate, frilly, fussy or overwrought in a silly or purely decorative way.
   • 2006, Rick Burgess, Bill Bussey, Rick and Bubba's Expert Guide to God, Country, Family, and Anything Else We Can Think Of, →ISBN:

     By “complicated food,” we mean “floofy food.” It's doing far more to our food than is necessary.

   • 2010, Nina Harper, Succubus In The City, →ISBN:

     This book is for those wonderful, irreplaceable people who feed me chocolate and floofy drinks when I'm miserable and depressed, and celebrate with chocolate and floofy drinks when things go well for me.

   • 2014, Anne Moore, Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh, →ISBN, page 71:

     I felt most strongly in that moment was that American culture had lost its respect—and maybe even need—for innovation. Not creativity, which seemed dilettante and floofy to me here, something I might comment on in a well-decorated home.

   • 2015, Karen Dabaghian, A Travelogue of the Interior, →ISBN, page 24:

     And I get it: for many of us, poetry is esoteric and daunting and floofy and frankly not very interesting.

3. (colloquial) Fluttery; emotional, worked up, especially over inconsequentials.
   • 2000, Jeffrey Hatcher, To Fool the Eye, →ISBN, page 30:

     Well, to be frank, Madame, when Mademoiselle Leocadia Gardi entered my cafe the first time, I must confess ... I just went all floofy!

   • 2012, Jennifer Greene, Blame It On Cupid, →ISBN:

     In personality, though, she did seem a little...floofy.

   • 2007, Kellyann Curnayn, A Good Day in Hell - The Flatlining of Nurses Across America, →ISBN, page 74:

     It took many years to get that tough and I'm not letting my armor down for some floofy executive from the top who sends in his teams of experts.

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