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tufty, a.|ˈtʌftɪ|
Also 7 tuffie.
[f. tuft n. + -y.]
1. Full of or abounding in tufts; covered or adorned with tufts:
a. of hair, thread, or the like.
1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 6 Signes of a good Ewe... Her buttocke broade and large, and shewing tufty and thicke of wooll. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 241 His black Thread-bare Coat..of a tufty and rusty Hue. 1848Fraser's Mag. XXXVII. 404 Shaven round his head, so as to leave a tufty patch at top.
b. Of foliage, herbage, or blossoms.
1638R. Brathwait Barnabees Jrnl. iii. (1818) 133 Vallies..Deckt with tufty woods. 1796A. Seward Hoyle Lake in New Ann. Reg. 158 Dry are the tufty downs, diffusive spread O'er the light surface of the sandy mound. 1869Blackmore Lorna D. lix, Here the ground lay jagged and shaggy, wrought up with high tufts of reed... This tufty, flaggy ground..will not hold impressions. 1903Academy 25 July 94/2 Yarrow and the tufty melilot.
c. Covered with tufts or clumps of trees. rare—1.
1612Drayton Poly-olb. xvii. 388 About the neighbouring woods..in the tufty Frith, and in the mossy Fell.
2. Forming a tuft or tufts; consisting of or growing in tufts.
1611Cotgr., Touffu.., tuffie [1632 Sherwood, Tuftie or tuffie], thicke growing, thicke of boughs, growing close together. 1613–16W. Browne Brit. Past. i. v. 310 An humble dale, Where tufty daizies nod at every gale. 1776Phil. Trans. LXVI. 100 Islands are overspread with a short, tufty, round grass. 1889Standard 24 Apr., They are all distinguished by frizzly hair, more or less tufty. |