tufty
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英 /ˈtʌfti/
美 /ˈtʌfti/
英文释义
名词 n.
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The tufted duck (Aythya fuligula).
— Buoyant. That's a tufty. Well, tufted duck, to be formal, but the name always sounds more like tufty duck, and there is something inspiringly matey about a tufty: we are on nickname terms with the bird at first glance.
形容词 adj.
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Having the form of or resembling a tuft (“a bunch of grass, hair, etc., held together at the base”).
— 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.
- Of a cow: seeking a bull to mate with.
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Covered in or having many tufts.
— Witneſs, thou best Anâna, thou the pride / Of vegetable life, beyond whate’er / The poets imaged in the golden age: / Quick let me strip thee of thy tufty coat, / Spread thy ambroſial ſtores, and feaſt with Jove!
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Covered in or having many tufts.; Covered with tufts (“small clumps of bushes or trees”).
— The Sylvans that about the neighbouring vvoods did dvvell, / Both in the tufty Frith and in the moſſy Fell, / Forſook their gloomy Bovvres, and vvandred farre abroad, / Expeld their quiet fears, and place of their abode, […]
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Growing in tufts.
— If you haue ſeene at foot of ſome braue hill, / Tvvo Springs ariſe, and delicately trill, / In gentle chidings through an humble dale, / (VVhere tufty Daizies nod at euery gale) […]
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From tuft + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjectives).
词源 2
From tuft(ed duck) + -y (diminutive suffix).
词源 3
Origin unknown.
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