† hufty-tuftyadj.n.
Obsolete.
A. adj.
Swaggering, bragging.
ΘΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [adjective]
termagant1546
roisterly1555
swashing1556
puffing1566
roisting1567
cocking1568
braving1579
huffling1582
kill-cow1589
roister-doistering1593
roister-doisterly1593
hufty-tufty1596
swaggering1596
huff-cap1597
sword-and-buckler1598
huffing1602
pyrgopolinizing1605
bold-beatinga1616
swash1635
swaga1640
blustering1652
bravashing1652
hectoring1664
hectorly1676
huffy1677
huff-snuff1693
swashbuckling1693
flustering1698
blustery1739
huffish1755
bravading1812
topping1815
Bobadilish1832
Bobadilian1837
fanfaronading1837
bucko1883
swashbucklering1884
swaggery1886
blokeish1920
blokey1938
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. L4v Gabriell..came ruffling it out huffty tuffty in his suite of veluet.
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 21 Huftituftie youthfull ruffling comrades wearing euery one three yeardes of feather in his cap for his mistris fauour.
B. n.
a. Swagger.
ΘΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [noun]
facing1481
blusteringa1494
flirdom?a1500
bravity1546
bravery1548
roistingc1560
bravado1583
roister-doisterdom1592
swash1593
swaggeringa1596
huffing1600
hufty1609
huff1611
brustling1622
hufty-tufty1633
bouncing1634
hectorism1672
huffiness1678
bluster1692
bounce1714
bravadoism1833
fanfaronading1837
bush1840
huffishness1841
swashbuckling1888
bucko1909
1633 Breton's Poste with Packet Madde Lett. (rev. ed.) i. 13 Master Wyld-goose, it is not your huftie tuftie can make mee afraid of your big lookes.
b. ‘Bravery’, finery.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > fine, splendid, or ornamental
quaintise1340
quaintries1484
tricking1549
bravery1563
flaunt1590
puppetry1598
frippery1637
finery1647
gentricec1650
hufty-tuftya1652
prinkum-prankum1683
fegary1724
chiffons1888
a1652 R. Brome Damoiselle iii. ii, in Five New Playes (1653) This is my Wife..You have lost yours, you say: Perhaps for want Of Hufty-tufties [printed tusties], and of Gorgets gay.
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