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From the word "fluff".

fluff

noun

1. soft fibers from fabrics such as wool or cotton which accumulates in small light clumps: he brushed his sleeve to remove the fluff. 2. entertainment or writing perceived as trivial or superficial: the movie is a piece of typical Hollywood fluff. 3. (informal) a mistake made in speaking or playing music, or by an actor in delivering lines.

verb

1. make (something) appear fuller and softer by shaking or brushing it: fluffed up pillows; A person that fluffs pillows: The persons hired as a fluffer. 2. (informal) fail to perform or accomplish (something) successfully or well (used especially in a sporting or acting context): the extra fluffed his only line.

origin

late 18th century: probably a dialect alteration of 16th-century flue'down, nap, fluff', apparently from Flemish viuwe.