Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A clump or tuft of grass.
- n. A low seat, such as a stool.
Wiktionary
- n. A clump of grass or similar vegetation.
- n. furniture A large cushion which may have an internal frame, used as a low seat or stool.
- n. An inflatable cushion serving as landing area for precision accuracy parachuting.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a low seat or a stool to rest the feet of a seated person
Etymologies
- Alteration of tuft. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“She first looked around for a place to sit down, and finally discovered a little grassy mound, which is called a tuffet in the country, and seated herself upon it.”
“Also known as a tuffet, a name that recalls the nursery rhyme and images of Miss Muffet eating her curds and whey, its image was once old-fashioned.”
“Wow, I am really drawn to that stack it "tuffet" stool.”
“A tuffet of moss caught her as she tumbled free, and she skipped down the lane into town.”
“She darted down the lane to the tuffet of moss in the woods.”
“Also kudos to the ending where our little miss tuffet goes out with flashing blue and red lights to have a bad acid trip!”
“I was perfectly content as a flightless species, but my wife likes to flit off to the Med whenever possible and enjoy a week of sunstroke and food poisoning, so she booked us a holiday in the island paradise of Gozo, a tuffet of volcanic rock near Malta.”
“Tis 'rumored they're sharing a tuffet in hell beating their Kurds and Gays.”
“Even if your fanny is still sore, at least it will look good sitting upon this tuffet.”
“Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating her old friend Trey.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tuffet’.
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Words For Novel (Part 2)
fable, sprite, syphilitic, anvil, wonderstruck, vertigo, bridled, tufted, fettered, savvy, tweed fedora, tryst and 255 more...
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Random Words
lochia, confused, innoxious, naive, cockatrice, derisive, parsley, passive, casual, football, innuendo, Rumanian and 198 more...
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bilby's Words
pandemic, whirl, guffaw, ethereal, feisty, dunt, ephemeral, pule, flipergebet, prink, maunder, gammon and 1023 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (T)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
tabard, tadpole, taffeta, taffy, talisman, tallgrass, tam, tamarind, tamarack, tambourine, tango, tansy and 144 more...
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
nasality, transignification, lapsarian, disciple, slanguage, atwitter, avast, ahoy, asleep, awake, hymnody, glissade and 573 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, T
torquate, thalassocracy, toothsome, travois, tempestuous, tone, tincture, tripwire, tether, trill, tenacious, travesty and 355 more...
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perodicticus's Words
elsewhen, freckles, prepone, tuffet, cockle, morning, eight, yellow, block, nocturne, ballroom, sleep and 1 more...
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spoon's Words
tuffet, spoon, eigenvalue, eigenvector, eigenspace, stoked, orgy, nonagon, humanitarian, life, cheesesteak, nice and 78 more...
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Rest afoot
Equipment for maintaining one's lower extremities in an elevated posture whilst seated.
hassock, ottoman, pouffe, footstool, tuffet, footrest, stirrup, ottoman
Tweets
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qroqqa Oh that's interesting, the OED thinks the "hassock or footstool" meaning is dubious and may come from misinterpretation of the nursery rime (as it calls it), which might actually refer to a tuffet = tuft = grassy knoll, hillock. Jun 10, 2009
bilby * Earwitness reports suggested a shot may have been fired from the grassy tuffet.
Nup, does not compute. Jun 10, 2009
tbtabby Huh? I'd always heard that a tuffet was a small, grassy hill. Jun 10, 2009
bilby
This curious error completed her terror;
She shuddered, and growing much paler, not
Only left tuffet, but dealt him a buffet
Which doubled him up in a sailor knot.
It should be explained that at this he was pained:
He cried: 'I have vexed you, no doubt of it!
Your fist's like a truncheon.' 'You're still in my luncheon,'
Was all that she answered. 'Get out of it!'
- Guy Carryl, 'The Embarrassing Episode Of Little Miss Muffet'. Dec 5, 2008
slumry That upon which Little Miss Muppet sat, eating her curds and whey. Jun 27, 2007