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tuft-hunter

tuft-hunter is the alternative form of tufthunter.

Meaning of tufthunter

Noun

tufthunter (plural tufthunters)

  1. (UK, archaic, slang) A hanger-on to noblemen or persons of quality, especially in English universities; a toady.
    • The earl seeing the ecclesiastic abase himself before mere rank , clearly took him for a toady and a tufthunter1840, The Westminster Review

Forms of tuft-hunter

pluraltuft-hunters

Questions about tuft-hunter

What is tuft-hunter the alternative form of?
Tuft-hunter is the alternative form of tufthunter.

Words near tuft-hunter in the dictionary

  1. tufoli
  2. tufon
  3. tufons
  4. TUFROC
  5. tuft
  6. tuft-hunter
  7. tuft-hunters
  8. tuft-hunting
  9. tuft-taffeta
  10. tuft-taffetas
  11. tuftaffeta

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tuft-hunter (page history and authors); tufthunter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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