(uncountable, southwest, Southwest, _, England) Dust; fluff.
(uncountable, southwest, Southwest, _, England) Dust; fluff.
When you get what you want in your struggle for pelf, and the world makes you King for a day, / Then go to the mirror and look at yourself, and see what that guy has to say.
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(Scotland) A puff of smoke or dust.
Pluff is a Scottish dialect word with a softness baked right into its sound. It can mean a powder puff used by a hairdresser, the action of using one, or a light puff of smoke or dust. There's something wonderfully onomatopoeic about it — 'pluff' sounds exactly like what it describes: a soft, airy little burst of something. It's dialect-specific and old-fashioned, but the kind of word that immediately makes sense the moment you hear it.
(Scotland) A hairdresser's powder puff.
(uncountable, dated) Rubbish, trash; specifically (Britain, dialectal) refuse from plants.
(uncountable, chiefly, derogatory, dated) Money, riches; gain, especially when dishonestly acquired; lucre, mammon.
The inscriptions on the walls are homilies from the Koran—actual 'sermons in stones'. The inlaid characters in diamond, and other precious stones, have been all abstracted away by the pelf-loving Jaut and Mahratta—leaving the walls defac…