tuft
pronunciation
How to pronounce tuft in British English:
UK [tʌft]
How to pronounce tuft in American English:
US [tʌft]
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- Noun:
- a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass
- a bunch of feathers or hair
Word Origin
- tuft
- tuft: see toff
- tuft (n.)
- "bunch of soft and flexible things fixed at the base with the upper ends loose," late 14c., of uncertain origin, perhaps from Old French touffe "tuft of hair" (14c.), which is either from Late Latin tufa "a kind of crest on a helmet" (also found in Late Greek toupha), or from a Germanic source (compare Old High German zopf, Old Norse toppr "tuft, summit;" see top (n.1)). As a verb from 1530s. Related: Tufted.
Example
- 1. Give him a tuft of hair and furry eyebrows .
- 2. We saw a rabbit on a tuft of grass .
- 3. Phenotype : fallow-sprit , yelloface type1 , dark ( cobalt ) , opaline , japanese tuft .
- 4. The swiss diplomat entered brisky , a decent , sad little man , with a red tuft of chin beard .
- 5. One tuft was of two colours , magenta and brick-red , apparently growing on the same root .