Sc. [belongs to FLUFF sb.2; of onomatopœic origin.]

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  1.  a. trans. To knock out of breath; to cause to pant. Only in pass. b. intr. To puff, pant. c. To make a fuss.

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1790.  Shirrefs, Poems, 21.

        But, yet, nae ferly gin I’m fluff’d,
By Fortune I ha’e lang been buff’d.

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1813.  Hogg, Queen’s Wake, 70.

        As fast as the hail, as fast as the gale,
  As fast as the mydnycht leme,
We borit the breiste of the burstyng swale,
  Or fluffit i’ the flotyng faem.

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1889.  Mrs. Lynn Linton, Thro’ the Long Night, I. II. i. 310. She had often fluffed and fumed to Anne over that provision of her father’s will; and Anne knew exactly what she thought and how she felt.

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  2.  trans. To make (gunpowder) ignite and go off. Also to fluff in the pan. Cf. FLASH v. 5 c.

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1825.  Jamieson, To fluff powder, to burn gunpowder; to make it fly off, S.

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1855.  Ogilvie, Suppl., Fluffed i’ the pan. Burned priming, without firing the barrel of the gun or pistol. [Scotch.]

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