| bluff | (adjective) very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front | Synonyms: bold, sheer |
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| (adjective) bluntly direct and outspoken but good-natured | - |
| (noun) the act of bluffing in poker; deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards | Synonyms: four flush |
| (noun) pretense that your position is stronger than it really is | - |
| (noun) a high steep bank (usually formed by river erosion) | - |
| (verb) frighten someone by pretending to be stronger than one really is | - |
| (verb) deceive an opponent by a bold bet on an inferior hand with the result that the opponent withdraws a winning hand | Synonyms: bluff out |
| bluffer | (noun) a person who tries to bluff other people | Synonyms: four-flusher |
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| bluffly | (adverb) in a blunt direct manner | Synonyms: bluntly, brusquely, flat out, roundly |
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| bluffness | (noun) good-natured frankness | - |
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| fluff | (noun) a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines) | - |
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| (noun) something of little value or significance | Synonyms: bagatelle, frippery, frivolity |
| (noun) any light downy material | - |
| (verb) ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect | Synonyms: tease |
| (verb) erect or fluff up | Synonyms: ruffle |
| (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
| fluffiness | (noun) a light softness | Synonyms: downiness, featheriness |
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| fluffy | (adjective) like down or as soft as down | Synonyms: downlike, downy, flossy |
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| luff | (noun) the act of sailing close to the wind | - |
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| (noun) (nautical) the forward edge of a fore-and-aft sail that is next to the mast | - |
| (verb) flap when the wind is blowing equally on both sides | - |
| (verb) sail close to the wind | Synonyms: point |
| luffa | (noun) any of several tropical annual climbers having large yellow flowers and edible young fruits; grown commercially for the mature fruit's dried fibrous interior that is used as a sponge | Synonyms: dishcloth gourd, rag gourd, sponge gourd, strainer vine |
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| (noun) the dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa; used as a washing sponge or strainer | Synonyms: loofa, loofah, loufah sponge |