[f. FLUFFY a. + -NESS.] The quality of being fluffy, in various senses.
1860. Dickens, Uncomm. Trav., vi. An air of mingled fluffiness and heeltaps added, ‘Second Waiter’s.’
1879. Sala, Paris herself again (1880), II. x. 145. The old beaver hat, remarkable alike for its weight, its warmth, its costliness, and its fluffiness of texture.
1886. Fun, 4 Aug., 44/2. A sullen-faced, clerical-looking young man, charged with fluffiness in a public conveyance, said he was sober as a judge when taken into custody.
1893. Farmer, Slang, Fluffiness 2 (theatrical), the trick, or habit, of forgetting words.
