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tuft
English
Etymology
From Middle English tuft, toft, tofte, an alteration of earlier *tuffe (> Modern English tuff), from Old French touffe, tuffe, toffe, tofe (“tuft”) (modern French touffe), from Late Latin tufa (“helmet crest”) (near Vegezio), from Germanic (compare Old English þ?f (“tuft”), Old Norse þúfa (“mound”), Swedish tuva (“tussock; grassy hillock”)), from Proto-Germanic *þ?b? (“tube”), *þ?baz; akin to Latin t?ber (“hump, swelling”), Ancient Greek ????? (t??ph?, “cattail (used to stuff beds)”). Equivalent to tuff.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?ft/
- Rhymes: -?ft
Noun
tuft (plural tufts)
- A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.
- A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.
- A small clump of trees or bushes.
- (historical) A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.
- (historical) A person entitled to wear such a tassel.
Derived terms
- tufthunting
- tufthunter
Translations
Verb
tuft (third-person singular simple present tufts, present participle tufting, simple past and past participle tufted)
- (transitive) To provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts.
- (transitive) To form into tufts.
- (transitive) To secure and strengthen (a mattress, quilt, etc.) with tufts.
- (intransitive) To be formed into tufts.
Translations
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ryegrass
English
Etymology
rye +? grass
Noun
ryegrass (countable and uncountable, plural ryegrasses)
- (countable) Any of several species of tufted grasses of the genus Lolium.
- Perennial ryegrass is an important species for lawn seed mixes.
- (uncountable) A collection of plants of any of the species, as in a lawn or field.
- We seeded the meadow with ryegrass to provide better forage.
Descendants
- ? Catalan: raigràs
- ? Spanish: raigrás
Translations
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