fluff-up

fluff-up (plural fluff-ups)

1. A blunder.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 202:

     On top of that he upset the frying-pan with an almighty fluff-up of blazing fat, and exploded into curses.