fuzzball

English

Etymology

From fuzz +‎ ball.

Noun

fuzzball (countable and uncountable, plural fuzzballs)

  1. A ball of fuzzy material.
    • 1988, Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye:
      I sit in my bedroom picking the pilly fuzzballs off my lambswool sweaters and the phone will ring.
  2. (countable, humorous, informal) Any soft, fuzzy creature.
    Near-synonyms: furball, fluffball
    • 2009, Johannah Haney, Ferrets, page 7:
      Ferrets can be very entertaining little fuzzballs, but keeping a ferret as a pet is also a big responsibility.
  3. (countable, astronomy) A quantum description of a black hole in superstring theory.
  4. (countable) A puffball.
  5. (uncountable) An informal American street game resembling baseball.
  6. Synonym of pill (“ball of fibers formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing”).

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