Fluffing

• Fluffing is a hairdressing and makeup term. Fluffers were originally those who touched up an actress's hair and makeup during a shoot.
• A fluffer is one who prepares a house for sale, employing cosmetic skills, such as hedge pruning, or psychological tactics, such as baking bread while the house is being shown.
• On a TV show set or in a comedy club setting, "fluffer" can refer to a warm-up act, whose task it is to engage the audience prior to the arrival of the main attraction or in between takes.
• Fluffing is also a slang term used in acting. An actor who misreads his/her lines but continues on in character is said to have "fluffed" their lines. This term is primarily used in Britain. (An American will more likely say "flubbed" or "botched".)
• In call centers, fluffing can be used to describe call avoidance, often by offering incomplete solutions or referring the caller to another provider.
• Fluffing can also be used to describe the artificial inflation of another's ego for personal gain and/or insincere promotion of ideals or policies.
• Fluffing is also a euphemism used to refer to farting.
• Fluffer can refer to a staff officer who won't let an issue or program die as they've been instructed to.
• Fluffers or Fluffies has been used as a name for workers on the London Underground who would clean hair, dirt and dust from the tunnels at night when no tube trains run. The work was often done by hand by female workers.
• Fluffer can refer to a person who is constantly exaggerating (fluffing up) his/her life story for the purposes of making it more dramatic.
• A fluffer is a hired member of the crew of a pornographic movie whose role on the set is to sexually arouse the male participants prior to the filming of scenes requiring erections.
• A Fluffer is one of the three kinds of Stroggs in the Enemy Territory: Quake Wars video game.

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