to fluff up, puff up (principally of birds, but also cats etc.) · to prance, boast, behave showily
çekim: geçmiş plusterte · ortaç geplustert · şimdiki plustert · ulaç plusternd
köken: Ca. 1600, from Middle Low German plûsteren, iterative of plûsen (“to pick, pluck”). The sense developed from the way that chickens and other poultry groom their plumage. Cognate with Middle Dutch plûusteren; compare also Modern Dutch pluizen. Further origin uncertain; possibly from Old French peluchier.
fluff (something inconsequential), froth (unimportant talk), hot air (empty talk), waffle (pretentious phrasing); a flimsy, insubstantial speech or work · unesthetic little wad of wool that forms on wool clothes
köken: According to Max Vasmer, comes from деру́, драть (dratʹ). Compare typologically дребеде́нь (drebedénʹ), чепуха́ (čepuxá). Compare otherwise also Polish bzdura.
a chore, small job · something insignificant · a minor problem, something that went wrong
çekim: çoğul akkefietjes
eş: akkevietje
köken: First attested in the 1830s. Apparently a diminutive in -je or -tje. The first part might be borrowed from West Frisian akkefyt (“chore”), but the further origin is uncertain. The usual explanation connects it with Latin aqua vitae (“liquor, especially spice-flavored”); compare Norwegian akevitt, German Aquavit etc. However, the semantic development remains open to conjecture. An alternative…