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Answer for the clue "Light downy substance ", 5 letters:
fluff

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fluff is a noun for anything light, soft, or fuzzy and may also be: Belly button fluff, also known as navel lint A lightweight file manager using the FLTK user interface library and the default file manager in Tiny Core Linux

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to shake into a soft mass," 1875, from fluff (n.). Meaning "make a mistake" is from 1884, originally in theater slang. Related: Fluffed ; fluffing .

Usage examples of fluff.

They had blown fluff from a seedhead for camp chores: tonight Seri had to dig the jacks, and Aris had to take care of the fire.

My hair had been pressed down by my helmet, so I fluffed that out as femininely as I could make it.

An only marginally warmer breeze flowed along the same path as the water, and she stood in the draft for a few minutes, brushing off excess water and fluffing her hair until she was mostly dry.

He lingered openly in the doorway, ignoring Durward as he bustled around inside, lighting the fire, fluffing the pillows on the four-poster bed.

Han manner, by sticking pins in my feet and burning little heaps of moxa fluff up and down my spine.

They were too low for Pook to pass under, yet too fluffed out with brush for him to leap over.

She was cloaked by a skein of ravelled fluff beneath us and we caught the chant before she rose into the sunlight.

Alice looked charmingly forlorn peeping out of the wraps in which she was bundled against the cold, her hair fluffed and rimpled in shining disorder around her face.

They have thought they hated, that she was so eager fully tied the put them on today and fluffed up the sleeves and care et little sandals sashes, completing their costumes with the swe Patsy bought for them and the gold chains they must have gotten from Suzy yesterday before Carroll came in from work.

Crane brushed the yellow fluff wildly from before the eyes in his helmet, saw that the incredibly expanding bacteriophage had puffed out through the whole interior of the Martian cruiser.

He had curly white fluff around his ankles and a white pompon of hair on his short little tail.

And down by the torrent, on a faint game trail that led upstream, was a piece of emerald-green fluff stuck to the resiny trunk of a pine.

Pen automatically reached to brush a piece of fluff from his doublet, and while she was about it resituated the jeweled brooch he wore in the lace at his throat.

Apart from a brazen sky and silphium scrub, their constant companion was the sea, a huge expanse of polished aquamarine, fluffed with white where rocks lurked, breaking in gentle wavelets upon beach after beach after beach.

Keeley whispered know ingly as she watched her mother spritz on a bit of perfume and fluff her hair around her shoulders.