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tuffet ? Obs. exc. dial.|ˈtʌfɪt|
[f. tuff, F. touffe (see tuft n.) with suffix-exchange dim. -et1 for -el in OF. touffel.]
1. = tuft n. 1, 1 b.
1553Respublica iii. vi. 928 The goddesse occasyon..weareth a greate long tuffet of heare beefore, and behinde hathe not one heare. 1578Lyte Dodoens i. lxxiii. 108 At the toppe of the stalkes groweth blewish floures in thicke tuffets. a1691Boyle Hist. Air (1692) 178 Emerging from the ground like tuffets of rushes. 1899P. Robinson in Contemp. Rev. June 844 [A blackcap] standing between two ‘tuffets’ of bloom.
2. A hillock, mound: = tuft n. 3 b.
1877Blackmore Erema II. xxxiv. 193 Here were six little grassy tuffets.
3. ? A hassock or footstool.
(Doubtful: perh. due to misunderstanding of the nursery rime, which may belong to sense 2.)
18..Nursery Rime, Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, Eating of curds and whey. [Cf. buffet1.] 1895Benson in Contemp. Rev. July 125 Miss Moffat..hastily got up from the tuffet—which turned out to be a three-legged stool. 1904Westm. Gaz. 22 Dec. 1/3 Mamie..gave him a tuffet for his narrow feet.
Hence † ˈtuffetwise adv. [-wise], in the manner or form of a tuffet or tuft.
1578Lyte Dodoens ii. lvi. 217 The stalke is of a foote and half long: at which groweth a great sort of floures tuffet⁓wise. |