Lexicographical Neighbors of Pluffy
Literary usage of Pluffy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"... a half-grown bream. Plough, a wheel-carriage drawn by oxen. Pluff, fur.
pluffy, adj. soft; out of condition, ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1864)
"ven s ! the ill of the world is not repletion, — it is emptiness ; and all the
other fat men are running about in their own pluffy and breathless ..."
3. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"pluffy. Spongy ; porous. Devon. It is sometimes explained, soft, plump. PLUM.
(1) Light ; soft. Л est. (2) Sensible ¡ honest. North. (3) Very ; exceedingly. ..."
4. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"(4) The pluffy part of a bell-rope. SALLY-WITHY, ». A willow. Wilts. SALME, v.
To sing psalms. SALMON-SPRINT, 1 ». A young (3) ». A tottering situation. ..."
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