Definitions for tuft

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Spelling: [tuhft]

IPA: /tʌft/

Tuft is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in tuft (fttu).

Definitions for tuft

noun

1. a bunch or cluster of small, usually soft and flexible parts, as feathers or hairs, attached or fixed closely together at the base and loose at the upper ends.
2. a cluster of short, fluffy threads, used to decorate cloth, as for a bedspread, robe, bath mat, or window curtain.
3. a cluster of cut threads, used as a decorative finish attached to the tying or holding threads of mattresses, quilts, upholstery, etc.
4. a covered or finished button designed for similar use.
5. a cluster of short-stalked flowers, leaves, etc., growing from a common point.
6. a small clump of bushes, trees, etc.
7. a gold tassel on the cap formerly worn at English universities by titled undergraduates.
8. a titled undergraduateat an English university.

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish or decorate with a tuft or tufts.
2. to arrange in a tuft or tufts.
3. Upholstery. to draw together (a cushion or the like) by passing a thread through at regular intervals, the depressions thus produced being usually ornamented with tufts or buttons.

verb (used without object)

1. to form into or grow in a tuft or tufts.

Origin of tuft

1350-1400; Middle English, variant of toft(e) Middle French tofe, toffe t as in graft¹

Examples for tuft

I wiped it with a tuft of bracken, and I laughed with something of a bitterness.

A tuft of hair stood up on his crown like the crest on a game-cock.

She did so and found p. 67herself sitting on a tuft of rushes, and not in a palace.

She was fixing a tuft of flowers in his cap, singing softly as she did so.

She flushed again as she heard me, and plucked her tuft of grass.

When he looked up, the pony was stolidly cropping a tuft of grass.

He had but fifty yards to go, and started to glide stealthily from tuft to tuft.

His head is shaved, with the exception of a tuft on the crown.

Upon his brow he placed a tuft of feathers of the same shining tints.

A tuft of hair protruded from a hole in the crown of his hat.