What's the difference between fluff and goof?

Fluff


Definition:

  • (n.) Nap or down; flue; soft, downy feathers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Absolutely, I think it’s quite fascinating, since I’ve been looking at it, to see that amongst the fluff there are serious things.
  • (2) Distribution of membrane in mature milks was: fat globules, 80%; skim milk, 20% (including fluff, 5%); and cells, less than 1%.
  • (3) These included an investigation of egg handling techniques from nest box to hatcher; the adoption by the hatchery of plastic setter trays; an improvement to incubator environment; an improvement in the overall hatchery hygiene programme and the introduction of a regular monitoring programme based on the examination of hatchery fluff.
  • (4) What they proved, in unambiguous data, was that the photo-op image of Team GB as a changing nation of many hues was not PR fluff but demographic reality.
  • (5) Awaiting his razor-sharp skills are four Cambridge lads sporting varying degrees of bum fluff.
  • (6) They could afford to fluff their lines with Bournemouth’s own glimpses of goal sporadic, and invariably limited to chaotic ricochets in the penalty area, but those are the chances that may need to be taken in the matches against Liverpool, Manchester United and Stoke City after the international break.
  • (7) When he did not sing the national anthem during a Battle of Britain commemoration service – prompting the outrage of the rightwing press – they saw it as the same diversionary fluff that surrounded whether he might, as a privy councillor, bow before the Queen.
  • (8) Many mammals fluff up their fur when threatened, to look bigger and so more dangerous.
  • (9) No, what really thwarts ambition is when a promising child fluffs up exams because her family can’t afford anything more than a cramped flat where there is nowhere quiet to study.
  • (10) The story goes that when Freeman took the garment to be dry-cleaned, it came back looking like a shapeless ball of fluff, but he continued to wear it regardless.
  • (11) He set up a website, Cats To Go , which includes an image of a kitten with devil's horns under the heading: "That little ball of fluff you own is a natural born killer".
  • (12) What Wired UK aims to do "is not fluff or bullshit: it's data".
  • (13) In injury-time, the Argentinian ran unchallenged from halfway with no defenders in sight only to fluff his chip.
  • (14) There's no mention of belly button fluff either - but blackheads, snot, puke, pus, scabs, tears, smegma, eyelid crumbs, vaginal discharges, menstrual blood and other gunk are all acceptable fodder, especially when dried to a crust under the fingernails.
  • (15) Obama fluffs around the topic but does own up: "I am ultimately responsible for what’s taking place there."
  • (16) It ran a Small Charity Week in June where three small charities – Down's Heart Group, Haworth Cat Rescue and Fat Fluffs Rabbit Rescue won £1,000 grants each.
  • (17) It’s not just fluff.” At the other end of the country, a few days later, in the original and first BrewDog bar, on Gallowgate in Aberdeen, barman Dave Bruce, 32, said he had spent 18 months trying to get a job there.
  • (18) With a decent covering of fur, this would fluff up the coat, getting more air into it, making it a better insulator.
  • (19) The results clearly showed that the diapers with absorbent polymer provide a better skin environment than those with fluff only with respect to lower skin wetness and pH control (instrumental measurements).
  • (20) Of course, in politics as in sport, there is no goal so open that someone can’t fluff it and miss.

Goof


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Seldom has he goofed around with more serious a purpose.
  • (2) This time it was Cherundolo who goofed, kicking air as a long ball flew through to Djebbour, who again lacked composure and plopped a ridiculous shot into the sidenetting.
  • (3) Five-year-old Raghat loved singing, nail polish, teasing her toddler sister, the alphabet she was starting to learn at nursery, and goofing for the camera.
  • (4) It's easy to forget, watching him talk, viewing old films, even seeing him goof about with a gaggle of kids in Fading Gigolo, that Allen is the product of pre-war New York.
  • (5) Kjaer goofed by passing straight to Kuyt, who quickly played in Van Persie.
  • (6) You know, it could be for some epic ride – attach it to the board, maybe, or just goofing off and doin' pranks, like, hey, there's a shopping cart, climb on in and we'll push ya down this steep hill and into that big bush, and film it!
  • (7) "When I was your age," Obama said, "I was a little bit of a goof-off.
  • (8) He also admitted: "When I was your age, I was a little bit of a goof-off.
  • (9) Days before the polls opened, the Tories tried to make hay by supplying the press with an exhaustive dossier of kerr-azy online goofs committed by Ukip candidates.
  • (10) The press officer concerned has apparently admitted: "Oops, I goofed, the president is mad with me."
  • (11) The aim of the present study was to investigate the accuracy of an electro-odontometric device "Odontometer" (Goof, Denmark) in the determination of the exact location of the apical constriction in root canals of extracted teeth in experimental conditions.
  • (12) In general, her inner experience was predominantly visual, and those images were frequently "goofed up", i.e., tilted, obliterated, or inaccurate in detail.
  • (13) I quaked and hoped and goofed through my teens, emerging into adulthood as someone who gave a good impression of being, if not exactly relaxed, then able to cope.
  • (14) It all started with an email chain This article from New York magazine explains how the seeds of BuzzFeed were sown with one email thread: In 2001, [founder Jonah] Peretti, then 27, was supposed to be writing his master’s thesis but instead diverted himself by goofing off online.
  • (15) So, again, the private sector stepped in when the NHS – and the government – had goofed.
  • (16) 9.11pm GMT 68 min: Neuru goofs, hitting a pass straight to Giroud, who tries to pick out Rosicky.
  • (17) Committed as ever to her cause, but I would imagine feeling somewhat defeated, tired, and pissed [off]”, while Abrams revealed: “There’s not much goofing around where Leia’s concerned.” Daisy Ridley’s Rey hasn’t seen her family since she was five years old We already knew that Rey was abandoned, but now there are a few extra details about her life on Jakku – described as a “junkyard planet” – that explain the character’s employment as a scavenger.
  • (18) Instead of saying I just goofed and have had no internal consistency I'm going to say I'm mixing things up like I'm a NBA coach.
  • (19) I was watching and I think he goofed the words in the second verse of Let Me Entertain You.
  • (20) "I think his job was so serious that he couldn't goof off.