Tufty

Quick meaning: Tufty is an adjective meaning Having the form of or resembling a tuft (“a bunch of grass, hair, etc., held together at the base”).

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. Covered in or having many tufts.
2. Growing in tufts.
3. (British, informal) The tufted duck (Aythya fuligula).
4. (obsolete) Of a cow: seeking a bull to mate with.

Example Sentences

In recent years Nelson has grown a mustache, a tufty brown smudge not much wider than his nose.

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.

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.

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) […]

Word Forms

• tuftier
• tuftiest
• tufties

Synonyms for tufty

Depending on context, synonyms include penicillate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include turflike, tresslike, crinite, tussocky, stupeous, stupose.

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