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tufty

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈtʌfti/Sorted fttuyStarts with TEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. Having the form of or resembling a tuft (“a bunch of grass, hair, etc., held together at the base”).

Word origin

From tuft + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjectives).

Used in a sentence

  • There was a bed of nothing but mignonette and another of nothing but pansies—borders of double and single daisies and all kinds of little tufty plants she had never seen before.
  • Here he stood for a moment looking up and down the narrow road and the heavy snowflakes covered his shoulders and his tufty, ill-kempt hair.
  • In recent years Nelson has grown a mustache, a tufty brown smudge not much wider than his nose.

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