tufts
tufts is the plural of tuft.
tufts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tuft.
Meaning of tuft
Noun
tuft (plural tufts)
- A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.
- A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.
- A small clump of trees or bushes.
- “Not far from this place, there is a tuft of about a dozen of tall beeches […].”1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume One, II.4
- A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.
- A person entitled to wear such a tassel.
- A college tutor, or a nobleman’s toady, who appears one fine day as my right reverend lord, in a silk apron and a shovel-hat, and assumes benedictory airs over me, is still the same man we remember at Oxbridge, when he was truckling to the tufts, and bullying the poor undergraduates in the...1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 62, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Tufts
Tufts (plural Tuftses)
- A surname.
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Tufts
Tufts
- plural of Tuft
Forms of tufts
| plural | Tuftses |
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Origin of tufts
Variant of Tuft.
Words formed from tufts
Phrases with tufts
Questions about tufts
- What does tufts mean?
- Tufts means a surname.
- What is tufts the plural of?
- Tufts is the plural of tuft.
- What part of speech is tufts?
- Tufts is a proper noun.
Words near tufts in the dictionary
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