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Webster 1913 Edition


Tufty

Tuft′y

,
Adj.
1.
Abounding with tufts.
Both in the
tufty
frith and in the mossy fell.
Drayton.
2.
Growing in tufts or clusters.
Where
tufty
daisies nod at every gale.
W. Browne.

Webster 1828 Edition


Tufty

TUFT'Y

,
Adj.
Abounding with tufts; growing in clusters; bushy.

Definition 2024


tufty

tufty

English

Noun

tufty (plural tufties)

  1. (Britain) the tufted duck.

Adjective

tufty (comparative more tufty, superlative most tufty)

  1. Resembling or having the form of a tuft; growing in tufts.
    • 1727, James Thomson, Summer,
      Witness, thou best Anana, thou the pride
      Of vegetable life, beyond whate’er
      The poets imaged in the golden age:
      Quick let me strip thee of thy tufty coat,
      Spread thy ambrosial stores, and feast with Jove!
    • 1920, Katherine Mansfield, “Promises” in Bliss and Other Stories,
      There was a bed of nothing but mignonette and another of nothing but pansies—borders of double and single daisies and all kinds of little tufty plants she had never seen before.
    • 1933, Emma Orczy, The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel, Chapter 34,
      Here he stood for a moment looking up and down the narrow road and the heavy snowflakes covered his shoulders and his tufty, ill-kempt hair.
    • 1990, John Updike, Rabbit at Rest, Random House, 2010, I, p. 14,
      In recent years Nelson has grown a mustache, a tufty brown smudge not much wider than his nose.