different between tuft vs tuit

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)

1. A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.
2. A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.
3. A small clump of trees or bushes.
4. (historical) A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.
5. (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)

1. (transitive) To provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts.
2. (transitive) To form into tufts.
3. (transitive) To secure and strengthen (a mattress, quilt, etc.) with tufts.
4. (intransitive) To be formed into tufts.

Translations

English

Etymology

A pun on get around to it, reanalyzing it as get a round tuit.

Noun

tuit (plural tuits)

1. (humorous) Synonym of round tuit
   • 1996 October 6, Colin Douthwaite <[email protected]>, "Tuit", message-ID <[email protected]>, rec.humor, Usenet [1]:

     THIS IS A TUIT

   • 2000 December 7, Joe Zeff <[email protected]>, "Tuit Update", message-ID <[email protected]>, alt.sysadmin.recovery, Usenet [2]:

     My tuit is back from the shop, in a properly round state.

   • 2002 Mat 25, Scott W. Harvey <[email protected]>, "1953 BEITMAN MANUAL NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD", message-ID <[email protected]>, rec.antiques.radio+phono, Usenet [3]:

     1926-38 and 1939 manuals will be re-posted when my TUIT is round enough.

Anagrams

• ITU-T

Catalan

Etymology

Spanish tuit

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?tujt/

Noun

tuit m (plural tuits)

1. (Internet) tweet (post on Twitter)

   Synonym: piulada

Derived terms

• tuitejar

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tœy?t/
• Hyphenation: tuit
• Rhymes: -œy?t

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch tute. Cognate with German Tüte (“bag”). Further origin unknown.

Noun

tuit n (plural tuiten, diminutive tuitje n)

1. a spout
2. (obsolete) lock of hair

Derived terms

• schenktuit

Descendants

• Afrikaans: tuit

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

tuit

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of tuiten
2. imperative of tuiten

Finnish

Verb

tuit

1. Second-person singular indicative past form of tukea.

Anagrams

• tiut, tuti

Irish

Noun

tuit f (genitive singular tuite, nominative plural tuiteanna)

1. Alternative form of toit (“smoke”)

Declension

Verb

tuit (present analytic tuiteann, future analytic tuitfidh, verbal noun tuitim, past participle tuite)

1. Alternative form of tit (“fall”)

Conjugation

Mutation

References

• "tuit" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Old French

Adjective

tuit m

1. nominative singular of tot (“all”)

Adverb

tuit

1. nominative singular of tot (“all; completely”)

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tut?/

Verb

·tuit

1. third-person singular present indicative prototonic of do·tuit

tuit

1. second-person singular present imperative of do·tuit

Mutation

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• tot, tuih

Adjective

tuit

1. all; every

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish do·tuit (“falls”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t?u?t?], /t??u?t??/

Verb

tuit (past thuit, future tuitidh, verbal noun tuiteam, past participle tuite)

1. fall
2. happen, befall, chance
3. stumble, slip
4. subside
5. sink
6. set (as the sun)
7. benight
8. be seduced by
9. fail
10. damp

Mutation

References

• “tuit” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 do-tuit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Spanish

Etymology

Created by the Fundación del Español Urgente in order to have a more Hispanic word rather than adopting "tweet" from English. Added to the dictionary of the Real Academia Española in 2015.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?twit/, [?t?wit?]

Noun

tuit m (plural tuits)

1. (computing) tweet (post on Twitter)

Related terms

Further reading

• “tuit” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.