Tuft

Definition: Tuft

Tuft

Noun

1. A bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass.

2. A bunch of feathers or hair.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tuft" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Industry

Mining

Personal Care & Hotels

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Tuft

Assemblage

Group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil; set, batch, lot, pack; budget, assortment, bunch; parcel; packet, package; bundle, fascine, fasces, bale; seron, seroon; fagot, wisp, truss, tuft; shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook.

Roughness

Plumage, plumosity; plume, panache, crest; feather, tuft, fringe, toupee.

Crosswords: Tuft

Books

• Ricky the Tuft (Classic Tale) (reference)

• Sleeping Beauty and Other Stories/Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Hop O'My Thumb, Ricky With the Tuft, Donkey Skin, Puss in Boots, Little Red Riding hood (reference)

  (more book examples)

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If a basal tuft is not present, the genus is Culex. In this genus, one will note the presence of a row of tufts or scattered hairs occurring along each side of the siphon. Credit: CDC.

A tuft of closely set hairs forming a brush may occur on the tenth segment of the Orthopodomyia mosquito larva. Credit: CDC.

... Tickles her tuft, and laces on her stays. / J. Collier Sen. inv. del. T. Sanders sculpt. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Hence, for the responsible chief, the necessity of examining the smallest tuft of trees and appreciating the slightest details of contour

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Health

Other skin features that are not unique to individuals with TSC, including molluscum fibrosum or skin tags, which typically occur across the back of the neck and shoulders, café au lait spots or flat brown marks, and poliosis, a tuft or patch of white hair that may appear on the scalp or eyelids. (references)

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Expressions using "tuft": London tuft ♦ tuft hunter ♦ tuft leg length ♦ tuft length ♦ tuft of hair ♦ tuft of ribbons ♦ tuft of wool ♦ tuft study. Additional references.

Beginning with "tuft": tuft-taffeta.

Albanian

tufë (batch, beam, book, bunch, cloud, clutch, Covey, crop, drove, flight, flock, funiculus, group, herd, mass, muster, parcel, plume, ream, roll, run, scads, slip, stack, swarm, troop, truss, tussock, wad), xhufkë (aigrette, crest, plume, pompon, shag, tassel, thrum, topknot, toupee). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حزمة (beam, bob, bunch, bundle, pack, parcel, pencil, sheaf, wisp), ‏سنبلة (ear, head, spike), ‏عنقود (bob, bunch, cluster, fascicle, panicle, raceme, truss), ‏خصلة شعر (lock, lock of hair, tress, wisp), ‏خصل, ‏أجمة صغيرة, ‏رابية (barrow, elevation, hill, hillock, hummock, hump, mound), ‏باقة (bunch, spray). (various references)

Bulgarian 

снопче, туфа (agglomerate, tussock), кичурче, китчица, пискюл (fringe, pendant, pompom, pompon, tassel, thrum). (various references)

Chinese 

綹 (lock, skein), 一束 (hank, Hanks). (various references)

Czech

trs (bunch, cluster), střapec (tassel), rùst v trsech, ozdobit střapcem, chomáè (bunch, clump, cluster, fasciculus, knot), chocholka (topknot). (various references)

Danish

tuft, kvast (tassel). (various references)

Dutch

pluk, kuifje, kuif (hooter), dot (chunk, clod, lump), bosje (bunch), bos (bunch, bundle, cluster, forest, sheaf, woods). (various references)

Esperanto

tufo. (various references)

Faeroese

soppur (fungus, mushroom, sponge), skúvur (hooter), skúgvur, lagdur, doddur. (various references)

Farsi 

منگوله (Bob, Tassel), کلاله (Crest, Ringlet, Stigma), ته ریش (Stubble), طره داریاپرزدارکردن , طره (Crimp, Ringlet, Whisker), ریشه پارچه , ریش بزی (Goatee). (various references)

Finnish

tupsu (tassel). (various references)

French

touffe. (various references)

German

Büschel (bunch, bundle, clump, cluster, crest, fascicle, handful, sheaf, tufts, tussock, tussocks), Schopf (crest, shock, shock of hair, thatch), Quaste (bristles, brush, tassel, tassels). (various references)

Greek 

φιογγάκι (tassel), φούντα (tussock), φουντώνω (fire up, flare on, flare up, rage, spread), τούφα (wisp), θύσανοσ (tassel), θύσανος (barber chair, barber's chair, cirrus, tassel, tombstone), θυσάνω, δέσμη (beam, bunch, bundle, dossier, pack, packet, sheaf, wisp). (various references)

Hebrew 

פקעת חוטים (skein), גדיל (festoon, fringe, strand, tassel), בלורית (braid, crest, forelock, plait, quiff), ציצה (blossom, fringe, pompon, tassel). (various references)

Hungarian

hajcsomó (mop of hair, plume, toupee, tussock), bojt (bunch, fringe, tassel). (various references)

Indonesian

gunjai (tassel), gombak (crest, forelock), centung (crest, lock, tuft of hair). (various references)

Italian

fiocco (bow, flake, floccule, flock, jib, knot, tassel). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

房. (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふさ. (various references)

Manx

tapp (top, top toy), dossan (bunch, cockade, hackle, small cluster, spray). (various references)

Pig Latin

ufttay.(various references)

Portuguese

tufo de penas, tufo (flock, tussock, tussock moth, wisp), topete (axle pin, cowlick, effrontery, forelock, panache, topknot), relva (carpet, grass, green, herbage, lawn, sward), ramalhete (bouquet), penacho (aigrette, crest, egret, panache, topknot), molho (bundle, cluster, dish gravy, faggot, fagot, gavel, gravy, sauce, sheaf, truss), cabelo (hair), borla (beret, pompon). (various references)

Romanian

snop (bundle, faggot, sheaf, truss), smoc de pene, smoc (Bob, bunch, bundle, floccus, flock, lock, wisp), pompon (panache, pompon), pãmãtuf (aspergillum, shaving brush, whisk), moţ (Bob, ear, forelock, kiss-me-quick, tassel, topknot), floc de pãr, egretã (aigret, aigrette, egret), creastã (aigrette, back, brow, comb, coping, crest, edge, height, hogback, knoll, razor edge, ridge, spine, top), ciucure (fringe, pompon, Ravel, tassel), cioc (bang, beak, bill, Buss, click-clack, click-click, goatee, knock, mouth, nib, nose, nozzle, pecker, rostrum, sip, snout, spout), şuviţã (strand). (various references)

Russian 

пучок (bunch, bundle, cluster, fascicle, fascicule, funiculus, wisp). (various references)

Scottish

dos (a bush, bush, plume, thicket), bad (a cluster, attacking, bunch, cluster : ann ad bhad). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

resa (aglet, aiglet, catkin, fringe, gosling, thrum), bokor (cluster, stool), čuperak (cowlick, forelock, shag, shock, topknot, tussock, wisp), ćuba (crest, muff). (various references)

Spanish

penacho (aigrette, crest, plume), nudo de alfombra, mechón (bunch, door lock, forelock, lock), mata (Bush, clump, Hassock, shrub), manojo de vasos sanguíneos, cresta (crest, peak, ridge, top), copo (flake), copete (crest, forelock, pompadour, quiff), borla (ball, Bob, bobble, pompon, puff, tassel). (various references)

Swedish

tofs (crest, tassel, wisp). (various references)

Turkish

tutam (a handful, cluster, cut, nest, pinch, smack, soupcon, sprinkle, sprinkling, wisp), sorguç (aigrette, comb, crest, egret, hood, osprey, panache, topknot), perçem (forelock, fringe, tag), püskül (beard, coma, fringe, tag, tassel, thrum), küme (aggregate, aggregation, bank, clamp, cloud, clump, cluster, congeries, conglomerate, conglomeration, division, family, group, heap, league, mass, pile, stack), demet (bouquet, bunch, bundle, cluster, corymb, fascicle, fascicule, hand, sheaf, shock, truss), öbek (group, heap, lump, mound). (various references)

Turkmen 

зogdan (rag, shred). (various references)

Ukrainian

пучок (bun, bunch, bundle, cluster, fascicle, funiculus, sheave). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người sính làm quen với những kẻ quyền cao chức trọng (tuft-hunter). (various references)

Welsh

cudyn (lock). (various references)

crista. (various references)

tufa. (various references)

creste, toupe. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "tuft": tufted, tufter, tufters, tuftier, tuftiest, tuftily, tufting, tufts, tufty. (additional references)

Words ending with "tuft": candytuft. (additional references)

Words containing "tuft": candytufts, untufted. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tuft" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cuft, nuft, puft, shuft, tef, tefft, teft, tf, tfit, tft, tfta, thuf, tifft, Truefitt, truft, tuf, tuffa, tufi, Tufl, tufo, Tuftie, tuht, tuit, tunt, turt, tutt, tuvet, tuxt. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: tut.

-2 letters: ut.

+1 letter: tufts, tufty.

+2 letters: outfit, tuffet, tufted, tufter.

+3 letters: fatuity, flutist, flutter, fouette, fumette, futtock, outfast, outfelt, outfits, outfoot, tactful, tartufe, tuffets, tufters, tuftier, tuftily, tufting.

+4 letters: aflutter, factotum, flautist, flutiest, flutists, flutters, fluttery, fortuity, fouettes, frotteur, fruitlet, fumettes, furthest, fustiest, futility, futtocks, futurist, futurity, outfasts, outfeast, outfight, outfoots, reoutfit, stultify, tartufes, tartuffe, tasteful, tristful, trustful, truthful, tuftiest, turfiest, unfetter, unfitted, untufted.