tuft

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Noun

1. A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.
2. A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.
3. A small clump of trees or bushes.
4. (historical) A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.
5. (historical) A person entitled to wear such a tassel.

Verb

1. (transitive) To provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts.
2. (transitive) To form into tufts.
3. (transitive) To secure and strengthen (a mattress, quilt, etc.) with tufts. This hinders the stuffing from moving.
4. (intransitive) To be formed into tufts.

Konzepte

Büschel

Schopf

Flausch

Knoten

🪢

Plüsch

Rosinenbrötchen

Milchbrötchen

Schwefelkopf

Brötchen

Weckerl

Bündel

Synonyme

bunch

cluster

wisp

clump

tassel

tussock

lock

🔒

crest

bundle

grove

scrap

pinch

panache

forelock

fire up

fleece

handful

hassock

hill

hillock

hood

hummock

imperial

knap

knoll

knot

🪢

mount

pack

packet

pappus

patch

pencil

📝

plume

plush

pompom

pompon

pony tail

rag

sheaf

shred

swelling

thicket

tip

top

🔝

topknot

tress

small mountain

tuffet

little piece

flocculus

Übersetzungen

touffe

ciuffo

pluk

kuif

kuifje

bosje

dot

bos

🪵

manojo

penacho

mechón

🔒

cespo

φούντα

ciocca

🔒

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/tʌft/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: tuft

Verwandt mit Altenglisch: þūf

Verwandt mit Altnordisch: þúfa

Verwandt mit Schwedisch: tuva

Verwandt mit Schwedisch: tova

Verwandt mit Schwedisch: tofs

Verwandt mit Latein: tūber

Verwandt mit Altgriechisch: τῡ́φη

In summary

From Middle English tuft, toft, tofte, an alteration of earlier *tuffe (> Modern English tuff), from Old French touffe, tuffe, toffe, tofe (“tuft”) (modern French touffe), from Late Latin tufa (“helmet crest”) (near Vegezio). Compare Old English þūf (“tuft”), Old Norse þúfa (“mound”), Swedish tuva (“tussock; grassy hillock”), Swedish tova (“tangled knot”), Swedish tofs (“tuft, tassel”), from Proto-Germanic *þūbǭ (“tube”), *þūbaz; akin to Latin tūber (“hump, swelling”), Ancient Greek τῡ́φη (tū́phē, “cattail (used to stuff beds)”).