tuft

Meaning of tuft

noun
  1. a bunch or collection of threads, grass, hair, etc., held or growing together at the base.
    scrubby tufts of grass
verb
  1. provide with a tuft or tufts.
    the fringe can be tasselled or tufted
  2. strengthen (upholstery) by passing a cluster of threads through the material, so making depressions at regular intervals.

late Middle English: probably from Old French tofe, of unknown origin. The final -t is typical of phonetic confusion between -f and -ft at the end of words; compare with graft1.

Information about tuft

  • The plural form of tuft is: tufts.
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Hyphenation of tuft

tuft

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • tuft is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

tuft synonyms

Meaning tussock:

tussock

Meaning a small group of trees or plants growing closely together:

clump

Meaning a number of things, typically of the same kind, growing or fastened together:

bunch

Meaning a fastening made by looping a piece of string, rope, or something similar on itself and tightening it:

knot

Meaning a group of similar things or people positioned or occurring closely together:

cluster

Meaning a tuft or clump of something:

tuffet

Meaning a mechanism for keeping a door, window, lid, or container fastened, typically operated by a key:

lock

Meaning a small thin or twisted bunch, piece, or amount of something:

wisp

Meaning a comb or tuft of feathers, fur, or skin on the head of a bird or other animal:

crest

Meaning a knot of hair arranged on the top of the head:

topknot

Meaning a tuft of loosely hanging threads or cords knotted at one end and attached for decoration to soft furnishings, clothing, or other items:

tassel

Meaning a small clump of material that resembles a tuft of wool:

floccule

Meaning a small egg-shaped lobe on the undersurface of the cerebellum:

flocculus

Meaning a tuft of wool or similar clump of fibres or filaments:

floccus

Meaning a fine textile fibre and fabric of flax:

byssus

Meaning a prolonged state of deep unconsciousness, caused especially by severe injury or illness:

coma

Meaning the tuft of hairs on each seed of thistles, dandelions, and similar plants, which assists dispersal by the wind:

pappus

Meaning a small brushlike tuft of hairs on some insects, especially that on which pollen collects on the leg of a bee:

scopa

Meaning flamboyant confidence of style or manner:

panache

Translation of tuft

Words that rhyme with tuft

unstuft, candytuft

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