different between angst vs fluff

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Angst or Danish angst; attested since the 19th century in English translations of the works of Freud and Søren Kierkegaard. Initially capitalized (as in German and contemporaneous Danish), the term first began to be written with a lowercase "a" around 1940–44. The German and Danish terms both derive from Middle High German angest, from Old High German angust, from Proto-Germanic *angustiz; Dutch angst is cognate. Compare Swedish ångest.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?ng(k)sts, IPA^(key): /æ?(k)st/
  • (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): (see /æ/ raising) [e??(k)st]
• Rhymes: -æ?kst

Noun

angst (uncountable)

1. Emotional turmoil; painful sadness.
   • 2007, Martyn Bone, Perspectives on Barry Hannah (page 3)

     Harry's adolescence is theatrical and gaudy, and many of its key scenes have a lurid and camp quality that is appropriate to the exaggerated mood-shifting and self-dramatizing of teen angst.

2. A feeling of acute but vague anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression, especially philosophical anxiety.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

angst (third-person singular simple present angsts, present participle angsting, simple past and past participle angsted)

1. (informal, intransitive) To suffer angst; to fret.

References

• angst on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “angst”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
• "angst" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

Anagrams

• 'ganst, Gnats, Stang, Tangs, Tsang, gnast, gnat's, gnats, stang, tangs

Danish

Etymology

From Middle High German angest, from Old High German angust, from Proto-Germanic *angustiz.

Adjective

angst

1. afraid, anxious, alarmed

Noun

angst c (singular definite angsten, not used in plural form)

1. fear, alarm, apprehension, dread
2. anxiety
3. angst

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch anxt, from Old Dutch *angust, from Proto-Germanic *angustiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??st/
• Hyphenation: angst
• Rhymes: -??st

Noun

angst m (plural angsten, diminutive angstje n)

1. fear, fright, anxiety

   Synonyms: schrik, vrees, vrucht

Derived terms

• angstaanjagend
• angsthaas
• angstig
• angstpsychose
• angststoornis
• bindingsangst
• faalangst
• vliegangst

Related terms

• eng

Descendants

• Afrikaans: angs

Anagrams

• stang

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German (compare German Angst).

Noun

angst m (definite singular angsten, uncountable)

1. angst, anxiety

Derived terms

References

“angst” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

English

Etymology

From earlier floow (“woolly substance, down, nap, lint”), also spelt flough, flue, and flew, from West Flemish vluwe,of uncertain ultimate origin:

• Compare Old English fl?h (“that which is flown off, fragment, piece”) - see flaw
• Possibly representing a blend of flue +? puff; compare Middle Dutch vloe, or perhaps onomatopoeic; compare dialectal English floose, flooze, fleeze (“particles of wool or cotton; fluff; loose threads or fibres”), Danish fnug (“down, fluff”), Swedish fnugg (“speck, flake”).
• Alternatively, West Flemish vluwe may derive from French velu (“hairy, furry”), ultimately from Latin villus (“shaggy hair, tuft of hair”).

For words of similar sound and meaning in other languages, compare Japanese ???? (fuwafuwa, “lightly, softly”), Hungarian puha (“soft, fluffy”), Polish puchaty (“soft, fluffy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fl?f/
• Rhymes: -?f

Noun

fluff (plural fluffs)

1. Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
2. Anything inconsequential or superficial.

3. (informal) A lapse or mistake, especially a mistake in an actor's lines.

   Synonym: flub

4. (New England) Marshmallow creme.

   That New England-style salami and fluff sandwich sure hit the spot!

5. (LGBT) A passive partner in a lesbian relationship.
6. (Australia, euphemistic) A fart.

(Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• (anything light, soft or fuzzy): fuzz, oose (Scotland), puff
• (anything inconsequential or superficial): BS, cruft, hype, all talk
• (a lapse): blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, error, fault, faux pas, gaffe, lapse, mistake, slip, stumble, thinko
• (passive in a lesbian relationship): ruffle
• See also Thesaurus:error

Derived terms

• bit of fluff
• bumfluff
• fluffball
• fluffhead
• fluffiness
• fluffless
• flufflike
• fluffy
• marshmallow fluff

Translations

See also

• dust
• lint
• plumage

Verb

fluff (third-person singular simple present fluffs, present participle fluffing, simple past and past participle fluffed)

1. (transitive) To make something fluffy.

   The cat fluffed its tail.

2. (intransitive) To become fluffy, puff up.
3. (intransitive) To move lightly like fluff.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Holmes to this entry?)

4. (informal, transitive, intransitive, of an actor or announcer) To make a mistake in one's lines.

   Synonym: flub

5. (informal, transitive) To do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc.

   Synonym: flub
6. (intransitive, Australia, euphemistic) To fart.
7. (transitive, slang) To arouse (a male pornographic actor) before filming.
   • 2008, Blue Blake, Out of the Blue: Confessions of an Unlikely Porn Star (page 187)

     To get Lance Bronson hard, Chi Chi, in desperation, called Sharon Kane to come and fluff him on the set. People were always asking me how they could get a job as a fluffer.

Derived terms

• fluff-dry
• fluffer
• fluff girl
• fluff up
• mattress fluffer

Translations

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “fluff”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Swedish

Noun

fluff c

1. fluffy (and absorbent) stuff in a baby's diaper

Declension

Synonyms

• fluffmassa

Related terms

• fluffa
• fluffig

References

• fluff in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)