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tussock

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈtʌs.ək/Part of speech nounSorted ckosstuStarts with TEnds with K0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass

Word origin

Uncertain. Likely from or related to tusk + -ock (diminutive suffix). Compare Middle High German zūsach (“thicket”), a derivative of Middle High German zūse (“lock of hair”). Compare also Scottish Gaelic dosag (“little tuft”).

Used in a sentence

  • An Indian grazing ground is all rocks and scrub and tussocks and little ravines, among which the herds scatter and disappear.
  • One Kashmiri morning in the early spring of 1915, my grandfather Aadam Aziz hit his nose against a frost-hardened tussock of earth while attempting to pray.
  • I yearned, painfully, for […] a sight and touch of a hillside covered with golden tussock.

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