English
tufty
From tuft + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjectives).
The story
From tuft + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjectives).
Today it means
adj Having the form of or resembling a tuft (“a bunch of grass, hair, etc., held together at the base”).
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “tufty”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
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