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insomniasexx  ·  3548 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Share a word

Fluffiest. (I discovered this morning that this isn't a word. But it's great)

Well. It's sort of a half word. There are definitions in online dictionaries, but Apple doesn't recognize it and I don't think it's in a real dictionary.





galen  ·  3548 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think I was going to say something about this comment but I thought about it too hard and now fluffiest just sounds like a random collection of weird sounds and I've forgotten everything I was thinking.

E: Just checked my dad's OED and you're right, fluffiest isn't there. But I came across another fun word - fluffily, meaning vaguely or indecisively.

insomniasexx  ·  3548 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I know exactly what you are talking about! That phenomenon is one of the more strange things our brain does. I think there was a name for it and some interesting factoids on Wikipedia but I can't recall the name right now.

galen  ·  3548 days ago  ·  link  ·  
_refugee_  ·  3548 days ago  ·  link  ·  

"most fluffy" doesn't seem like an appropriate remedy for "fluffiest" though (usually when a word isn't an "-est" it should be a "most")

user-inactivated  ·  3548 days ago  ·  link  ·