different between turfs vs turfy

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t??(?)fs/, /t??(?)vz/

Noun

turfs

1. plural of turf

Alternative forms

• turves

Verb

turfs

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of turf

Anagrams

• Furst, furst

English

Etymology

turf +? -y

Adjective

turfy (comparative turfier, superlative turfiest)

1. Of, pertaining to, or constructed of turf.
   • c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act IV, Scene 1,^[1]

     Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep,

   • 1762, James Macpherson, Fingal, London: T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, “Croma,” p. 254, footnote,^[2]

     The wind still sounds between the hills: and whistles through the grass of the rock. The firs fall from their place. The turfy hut is torn.

   • 1953, Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, New York: Viking, Chapter 26, p. 535,^[3]

     […] the fields […] were brown, turfy and stiff, these fields where battles of the Hundred Years’ War had been fought,

2. (obsolete) Relating to or involved with horses or horse-racing.

   Synonym: horsy

   • 1852, Louisa Anne Meredith, My Home in Tasmania, London: John Murray, Volume 2, Chapter 11, pp. 154-155,^[4]

     Good and fearless horse-women themselves, their whole delight seemed to be in the discussion of matters pertaining to the stable; and when meeting any young lady friend from a distance, the first questions were not enquiries after parents, sisters, brothers, or friends: no, nor even the lady-beloved talk of weddings and dress; but the discourse almost invariably took a “turfy” turn, that was, to say the least, unfeminine in the extreme.

   • 1854, Charles Dickens, Hard Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, Chapter 6, p. 36,^[5]

     Made up with curls, wreaths, wings, white bismuth, and carmine, this hopeful young person soared into so pleasing a Cupid as to constitute the chief delight of the maternal part of the spectators; but, in private, where his characteristics were a precocious cutaway coat and an extremely gruff voice, he became of the Turf, turfy.

   • 1895, Henry Seton Merriman, The Sowers, New York: Harper, Chapter 14, p. 121,^[6]

     When a Frenchman is horsey he never runs the risk of being mistaken for a groom or a jockey, as do his turfy compeers in England.