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tufty¹

  • /ˈtʌfti/ US, UK

Rhymes with -ʌfti

Where it comes from

From tuft + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjectives).

adjective tuftier · tuftiest

  1. Having the form of or resembling a tuft (“a bunch of grass, hair, etc., held together at the base”). 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.

    Similar: penicillate

  2. Covered in or having many tufts. Witneſs, thou best Anâna, 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!

    Similar: tufted

  3. obsolete, rare Covered with tufts (“small clumps of bushes or trees”). The Sylvans that about the neighbouring vvoods did dvvell, / Both in the tufty Frith and in the moſſy Fell, / Forſook their gloomy Bovvres, and vvandred farre abroad, / Expeld their quiet fears, and place of their abode, […]

    Similar: tufted

  4. Growing in tufts. If you haue ſeene at foot of ſome braue hill, / Tvvo Springs ariſe, and delicately trill, / In gentle chidings through an humble dale, / (VVhere tufty Daizies nod at euery gale) […]

tufty²

  • /ˈtʌfti/ US, UK

Rhymes with -ʌfti

Where it comes from

From tuft(ed duck) + -y (diminutive suffix).

noun tufties

  1. UK, informal The tufted duck (Aythya fuligula). Buoyant. That's a tufty. Well, tufted duck, to be formal, but the name always sounds more like tufty duck, and there is something inspiringly matey about a tufty: we are on nickname terms with the bird at first glance.

tufty³

  • /ˈtʌfti/ US, UK

Rhymes with -ʌfti

Where it comes from

Origin unknown.

adjective tuftier · tuftiest

  1. obsolete Of a cow: seeking a bull to mate with.

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@misc{tufty_2026,
  title = {tufty},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tufty},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}